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![[Navy in Egypt] (ca.1945) [Navy in Egypt] (ca.1945)](/wp-content/uploads/films/9269/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Navy in Egypt]
Date | [ca. 1945] | ID | 9269 |
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This film features a series of of street scenes in Egypt that includes a visit to the Italian monument to Khedive Ismail in Alexandria (now memorial to the unknown soldier). This is followed by wide shots showing a series of naval ships at sea and on the Suez Canal. The final part of the film shows mixed views of the Suez Canal that includes the 1914-1918 War Memorial on West Bank, near Ismailia.
[Navy in Ceylon]
Date | [ca. 1945?] | ID | 9270 |
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This film shows scenes of the Royal Naval land base at "RMS Mayina", near Colombo, Ceylon [Sri Lanka] with views of camp life that includes men at the camp entrance, the inside of a hut, and short scenes aboard several vessels. The film also includes a mix of everyday street scenes with: oxen, cats, local markets, children waving at the camera, a visit to the "Lomond Rubber Creping Mill, Kelaniya", local Sir Lankan men in portrait, and naval vessels on a lake or river.
![TID 9497 [The work of the ARP following a bombing raid on Brighton], (May - September 1943)
A black and white still image taken from TID 9497, showing a group of men dressed in A.R.P uniforms clearing through the rubble of bombed out buildings in Brighton. Piles of debris swamps the road and pavement, as what remains of the building can be seen behind them; brickwork and inner rooms now exposed.](/wp-content/uploads/films/9497/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[The work of the ARP following a bombing raid on Brighton]
Date | May - September 1943 | ID | 9497 |
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An amateur black and white film of wartime Brighton capturing the aftermath of a bombing raid, the work of the ARP and an ARP training drill.
![TID 10792 [Atlantic Naval Convoys], (1943)
A colour still image taken from TID 10792, showing officers and Seamen of the Royal Navy on parade at a dockyard. The group are being inspected by their commanding officers and captain from the Flower Class Corvette, HMS Dianthus.](/wp-content/uploads/films/10792/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Atlantic Naval Convoys]
Date | 1943 | ID | 10792 |
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Amateur colour and black and white film of the North Atlantic convoys filmed on-board HMS Dianthus (K95), a Royal Navy Flower-class corvette, during World War Two.
![[Wings for Victory Week] (1943) A still from [Wings for Victory Week] (1943)](/wp-content/uploads/films/10938/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Wings for Victory Week]
Date | 20 March 1943 | ID | 10938 |
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The 'Official opening of the new Squadron’s HQ Air Training Corps, Banstead House by Air Chief Marshal, Sir B E Sutton, KBE, on 20 Mar 1943'. The squadron are then inspected by the attending dignitaries. A Wings for Victory Week parade is held with cadets, bands, armoured cars and civilians.
![[Marches; Target Reached] (ca.1944) A still from [Marches; Target Reached] (ca.1944)](/wp-content/uploads/films/10954/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Marches; Target Reached]
Date | [ca. 1944] | ID | 10954 |
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A black and white compilation of military parades, showing men and women on parade in a variety of locations in and around Woking.
![TID 12264 [Goudhurst Farm; Bomb Damage], (ca 1943 - 1947)
A wide black and white still image taken from TID 12264, showing a group of boys stood in two neat rows facing forward, on a parade style military inspection. The boys are dressed in their winter woollen farm uniform, in the entrance to a shelter style farm barn building on the Goudhurst Farm home estate.](/wp-content/uploads/films/12264/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Goudhurst Farm; Bomb Damage]
Date | [ca. 1943 - 1947] | ID | 12264 |
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An amateur film with intertitles of Fegans Children's Home at Goudhurst.
[Kenton and Sports at School]
Date | 1944; 1945; 1947 | ID | 518 |
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Various family scenes, beginning with the family playing in the garden at Kenton and then moving to a school sports day showing girls playing with hula hoops and skipping. The film then shows nuns handing out prizes.
[Children at play; farming]
Date | 1944 | ID | 1202 |
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Colour amateur footage which shows the Brocklehurst children playing at a plot of land owned by their family in Mersham, Kent and the surrounding countryside; farm labourers are seen busily getting in the harvest.

Memorial in Burma
Date | 31 August 1944 | ID | 1747 |
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Soldiers participate in a Memorial Service for the men of the 1st Battalion of the Queens Royal Surrey Regiment at a war memorial in Myanmar (formerly Burma).
![[War Time 1943-1945] A still from [War Time 1943-1945]](/wp-content/uploads/films/1706/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[War Time 1943-1945]
Date | 1944 - 1945 | ID | 1706 |
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Film of the Gowlland family, intercutting family life and outings with war-time events including V1 bombings and the end of the war. John has a toy doodlebug, the family take refuge in a Morrison shelter, and in the country. With the arrival of the end of the war, blackout restrictions are lifted, and the family take a trip to the beach.
![[Village Life in Cobham] (1944) A still from [Village Life in Cobham] (1944)](/wp-content/uploads/films/5269/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Village Life in Cobham]
Date | 1944 [?] | ID | 5269 |
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A portrait of village life in Cobham in 1944. The film follows villagers as they walk through the quiet streets and lanes, head into shops and pubs and wander past the church and almshouses. The film also features the film maker's children as they walk and ride through the village.

[Compilation: Coastal Command Operational Films]
Date | 5 December 1944 - 23 March 1945 | ID | 9562 |
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Film 1: Coastal Command Operational Film No. C. 47 Attack on Enemy Shipping in Fjord at Nordgulen 5.12.44 Film 2: Coastal Command Operational Film No. C. 54 Attack on Enemy Shipping off Aalesund. 10.1.45 Film 3: Coastal Command Operational Film No. C. 57 Attack on Enemy Shipping Ford, Fjord. 9.2.45 Film 4: Coastal Command Operational Film No. C. 59-61 Attack on Enemy Shipping in Skagerrak. 7.3.45 Film 5: Coastal Command Operational Film No. C. 63 Attack on Enemy Shipping in Vindspol. 8.3 45 Film 6: Coastal Command Operational Film No. C. 67 Attack on Enemy Shipping at Tejgenaes S.W of Nerlandsly. 23.3.45. Print in very poor condition.
[Church Parade; Ashenground Camp]
Date | [ca. 1946] | ID | 9913 |
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This black and white Girl Guiding film shows various companies from the Mid-Sussex districts of Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath, Hassocks, and Hurstpierpoint exiting a Church on a parade, accompanied by a group of Cub and Boy Scouts. The groups then join together for a getharring on the Ashenground campsite where they sing songs and dance together around a campfire.

Royal Thanksgiving and Royal Silver Wedding
Date | 1945; 1948 | ID | 3419 |
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An amateur film recording two national celebrations: National Day of Thanksgiving in London on Sunday 13th May 1945 and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's Silver Wedding parade and celebrations in 1948.
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