LETTERS FROM HOME : the work of the Postal Department at the Front [Main]
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Muu nimi/muut nimet: OFFICIAL PICTURES OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE - FOURTH SERIES [series]
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Vuosi: 1916
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Kesto: 9 mins
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Kuvaus: The young 'mother', at a table, begins her letter, "dear son" (acted). British troops unload sacks of mail for France at one of the Channel ports. The mail is taken across the Channel by ship and unloaded at a French port. A special "express" lorry is loaded with mail for headquarters, while British troops and French officials load other mail into goods trains. The express lorry arrives at GHQ Army Post Office at Saint Omer where the mail is unloaded and sorted. At the railhead the sacks of letters for the troops are unloaded from the train onto lorries. At a "refilling point" soldiers crowd round the lorry, the sacks are distributed and battalion orderlies sort the mail. At a field post office, a brick building beyond German shell range, soldiers queue to collect mail from pigeon holes. In a final scene (acted) letters are distributed to Highland troops in a front line trench while under shellfire.
Partially dramatised account of a letter being sent from a mother in Britain to her son serving in a trench on the Western Front, early 1916.
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Avainsanat: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Postal Service / communications, British military - postal: [+] / buildings, British - military: post office / combat [simulated], British - artillery bombardment [i] / society, British military - domestic / 31/3(41) / 01/3(4-15).5 / Saint Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France
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Kokoelma:
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Sisältölähde: Imperial War Museums
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Oikeudet: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
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Tuotantoyhtiö: British Topical Committee for War Films
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Väri: Black & White
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Sound: Without sound
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