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Title:HOSPITAL BOMBED BY GERMANS, AND FUNERAL OF THE VICTIMS [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 232
Other titles:
Summary: Funeral at a stationary hospital near Etaples, probably 9 (Canadian) Hospital, filmed three days after a bombing raid hit it on the night of 31 May 1918.
Description: The wooden huts of the hospital show various bomb blasts but little fire damage. Four coffins, covered in Union Jacks, are wheeled on trollies by soldiers. A single coffin, also covered with a Union Jack on a wheeled trolley, is followed by a funeral procession of nurses, soldiers with wreaths, and a few civilians. The procession arrives at a temporary but extensive cemetery where a burial service is held. (Note Thomas Aitken, the official photographer, at work.)
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
McDowell, J B (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Aitken, Thomas K (person)
Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service)
Canadian Army, Stationary Hospital 9 (regiment/service)
British Red Cross (regiment/service)
Keywords: buildings, Canadian - military: hospital (object name)
destruction, French military - area: air raid (object name)
casualties, Canadian graves - formal (object name)
ceremonies, Canadian - event-related: funeral (object name)
journalism and record, British - photographer (object name)
01/3(4-15).8 (event)
Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography)
propaganda, British (concept)