[WAAC CAMP AT ABBEVILLE FOLLOWING AN AIR RAID, 22ND MAY 1918] [Allocated]


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  • Autre(s) titre(s): [WAAC CAMP AT ABBEVILLE FOLLOWING AN AIR RAID, 22ND MAY 1918] [Allocated]
  • Année: 1918
  • Durée: 4 mins
  • Description: The camp Nissen huts show damage from the bombs. The women stand around watching. A view of Abbéville (?) with the smoke rising in the background. (The film is broken here by an unrelated scene of shells 'walking' towards a village). In the camp the WAACs clean up the debris and practise running to their air raid shelters.
    A Women's Army Auxiliary Corps camp at Abbéville following a German air raid, Western Front, 22 May 1918.
  • Mots-clés: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps1 / destruction, French military - area: air raid / buildings, British - military: Nissen hut / society, British military - precautionary: air raid precautions / 01/3(4-15).8 / Abbeville, Somme, France / sex
  • Fournisseur: Imperial War Museums
  • Droits: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Société de production: Topical Film Company
  • Couleur: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound