ALDER HAY HOSPITAL SPORTS [Main]


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  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 7 mins
  • Description: Most people in the races are wounded soldiers. A wheelchair race for cripples or amputees (one man falls out of his chair). A three legged race for nurses and patients in pairs, with the patients facing backwards. A joke bookmaker's stand. A donkey race. The watching crowd, mostly of wounded soldiers. Two heats of a carrying race. A treacle bun race, in which men on crutches have to eat a treacle bun without using their hands. A nurses' bicycle race. Another donkey race. A blindfold boxing match. An officers' donkey race. A race on crutches for one legged men. A confused drill demonstration by blindfold men. A nurses' donkey race. Prizes are awarded. The ending shows the British and American flags with the Red Cross flag suspended between them.
    Series of races at the sports day of Alder Hay hospital in Britain, probably 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Red Cross / World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care / medical, British military - hospital / recreation, British military - sport: athletics / 31/3(41) / GB, England & Liverpool, Lancs
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Pathe
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound