CASUALTIES FROM NORMANDY INVASION BEACHES RETURN TO THE UK (PART 5) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: CASUALTIES FROM NORMANDY INVASION BEACHES RETURN TO THE UK (PART 5) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 29-4
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  • Summary:
  • Description: Walking wounded make their way shorewards along the pier at HMS Porcupine, Gosport, while stretcher cases are transported on railway trolleys to waiting ambulances. Casualties are helped aboard an ambulance train at Gosport Station. A few of the more cheerful souls among them pose with two nurses for the cameraman.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: A70 29-4
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-06-07
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Taylor, A A (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Porcupine (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: casualties, British wounded (object name) transport, British military - ambulance (object name) transport, British military - rail: ambulance train (object name) medical, British military - movement (object name) 12/5(261.22).7 [ Operation Neptune] (event) GB, England & Gosport, Hants <HMS Porcupine> (geography) GB, England & Gosport, Hants <railway station> (geography) camera (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 179 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    A70 29-4

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