SHE SERVES ABROAD [Main Title]

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  • Title: SHE SERVES ABROAD [Main Title]
  • Film Number: CBE 208
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  • Summary: Women of the various services, and from various Empire countries, serving in the Middle East theatre of operations.
  • Description: WRNS are seen (in summer uniforms) filing, taking shorthand, operating teleprinters, visiting a ship; WAAFs in aircraft identification, maps room; ATS (from South Africa: commentary talks of Voortrekker ancestry) at rollcall, vehicle servicing, and driving ambulance convoy; Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service (nurses receive stretcher case from ambulance at Field Hospital). Film closes with unspecified woman workers, eg chemical research, control of troop movement, administration of supplies. 'The United Nations can be grateful and proud of the women in the Middle East'.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: CBE 208
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (CBE 208)
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1943
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office (Production sponsor) Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Army Film Unit (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force, Women's Auxiliary Air Force (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Women's Royal Naval Service (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: operations, Allied military - routine (object name) North Africa (geography) (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 668 ft; Running time: 7 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    CBE 208

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