WRNS (ledger title) [Main Title]

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  • Title: WRNS (ledger title) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 641
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  • Summary: Work by members of the Women's Royal Naval Service at a Royal Navy coastal torpedo boat base on the south coast of England, probably 1917 or 1918.
  • Description: Two WRNS in overalls work out of doors under the supervision of a petty officer, one reassembling a stripped Lewis machine gun and the other cleaning a pistol. Indoors, probably the WRNS officers' mess, decorated with embroidered cushions, where a few of them sit reading or writing, all very camera-conscious. Outside a supervisor marches a group of WRNS in nursing uniform past a hut. Other WRNS in overalls work whitewashing the stones on a flower bed. A close-up of three of the women, again very camera-conscious. The two women complete assembling the Lewis gun and take it indoors. One woman works as a switchboard operator. A group of five WRNS clean the upturned hull of a coastal torpedo boat. Two others work painting the superstructure of another motor boat.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 641
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor) Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Women's Royal Naval Service (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: operations, British naval - routine (object name) weapons, British - smallarm: Lewis machine gun (object name) operations, British naval - maintenance (object name) society, British naval - domestic (object name) communications, British naval - wire: telephone switchboard (object name) 31/3(41) (event) GB, England (geography) (concept) camera (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 564 ft; Running time: 9 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 641

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