WOMEN'S ARMY IN FRANCE (completed version) [Main Title]


  • Title: WOMEN'S ARMY IN FRANCE (completed version) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 329
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  • Summary: Compilation film of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in France, 1917-1918.
  • Description: A male sergeant-major oversees WAAC clerks at desks and benches indoors. ASC and WAAC clerks sort through a complex card index file spread out over several tables (the casualty records in the banqueting hall of the Archbishop's Palace in Rouen). A WAAC officer and an elderly captain distribute money at a WAAC pay parade. WAACs and RAF personnel indoors doing draughtsmen's work at desks. WAACs erect a bell tent in a camp near a village (the rest camp at Le Tréport), then strike another tent and carry it off. WAACs in bathing costumes beside the sea. WAACs cleaning and doing maintenance work on Army vehicles, possibly 41st Auxiliary Ambulance Car Company at Rouen. Three WAACs, two British soldiers and an Australian, "boys and girls come out to play", play games on the beach with waves coming over the breakwater. A WAAC in munitions uses some form of rocking device on her workbench while others perform similar precision work, apparently piston assembly, watched by RAF officers.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 329)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (regiment/service) British Army, Army Service Corps (regiment/service) British Army, Army Central Registry (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps, Auxiliary Ambulance Car Coy 41 (regiment/service) Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: administration, British - military (object name) operations, British military - routine (object name) recreation, British military - casual (object name) operations, British military - maintenance (object name) 01/3(4-15) (event) Army Central Registry, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France (geography) Le Tréport, Seine-Maritime, France (geography) (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 911 ft; Running time: 16 mins
  • Notes: Title: this is taken from the shotsheet Subtitles: there is one flashframe, quoted in the summary Summary: identification of the casualty records and of the rest camp is based on notes on a copy of a shotlist made by Lady Priscilla Norman, a Trustee of the IWM, following a screening in 1923. (Original in Department of Documents; photocopy in FVA.) See also IWM 315 and IWM 328, unedited films from which some of the scenes of this compilation are taken Series continuity: there is no film held as IWM 330
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