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Title:WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 371-1 (fragment 2) [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 461c
Other titles:PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 371-1 (fragment 2) [Alternative Title]
Summary: Newsreel item on Private R E Cruickshank receiving a gold watch from Lieutenant-General R S S Baden-Powell, Tottenham, London, 28th September 1918.
Description: The ceremony takes place in a park. A crowd of Boy Scouts watches as Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, presents Cruickshank, a former scout and VC winner with the London Scottish, with a gold watch on behalf of Cruickshank's employers, Lipton's.
Alternative Title:PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 371-1 (fragment 2) [Alternative Title]
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth (person)
Cruickshank, Robert Edward (person)
British Army, London Regiment, Bn 14 (regiment/service)
Boy Scouts (regiment/service)
Liptons (regiment/service)
Keywords: ceremonies, British - event-related: presentation (gold watch) (object name)
31/3(41) (event)
GB, England & London, N <Tottenham> (geography)
Children (concept)