... ‘served…his fellow men’). Secondly, the film seeks to highlight the advances in medicine and the social welfare provided for the troops, through these blood transfusions. In particular here, the item stresses that blood transfusions are ...
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... , as a symbol of "women at work for war". Lady Wavell meets Deputy Commissioner Sir Sobha Singh at opening of welfare centre in Mehrauli village, to see "the real India". Sweets distributed to soldiers' families.
II. "TRANSPORT LAUNCHED - BENGAL WILL ...
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LEARIE CONSTANTINE 1945
... a piece of paper, apparently to illustrate his credentials as a welfare worker. Constantine is next shown on the factory floor, ... 1969 (Campbell, 2007, 116).Learie Constantine: Welfare Worker and Cricketer illustrates the West ...
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DISTRICT OFFICER 1945
... social, economic and ethnographic topics with titles like Tree of Wealth, Kisan, Rural Bengal, All India Radio, Child Welfare, and Country Craft (Holmes 1946). In 1948, the IFI was reconfigured into the new Indian state with the remit of ... -
... Second World War (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2006).
Lewis, Joanna, Empire State-building: War & Welfare in Kenya, 1925-52 (Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 2000).
Parsons, Timothy, Race, Resistance, and ...
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... Park steps off a motor launch and stumbles a little on a deck cleat. She gets into a car and is driven off to visit an RAF Welfare Centre. She samples the food on offer and meets 'Little Wings' a young Chinese boy 'adopted' by a local Spitfire unit, RAF ...
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... in a certain amount of comedy groping. The gang show troupe's Flight Sergeant is greeted on the Akyab airstrip by the Group Welfare Officer before both get into a jeep. A single North American Harvard and a Republic Thunderbolt aircraft (possibly of RAF ...
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... EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB
More footage relating to an Gang Show organised by an RAF Welfare Unit on Akyab Island (Sittwe), Burma.
Chevrolet lorry passing camera with airmen in the back. Lorry reversing ...
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... reports emphasised the medical attention and welfare work provided for the African ... also due largely to the work of medical welfare and sanitary staff and, indeed ... main purposes. First, it emphasises the British welfare, sanitation and medical care offered ...
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... ; Leese meets patients. Leese departs. Tracking shot shows Leese's motorcade driving along Rangoon's streets. Leese visits a Welfare Canteen. Leese arrives at TOC HQ (Tactical Operations Centre?) and before leaving talks with a number of British troops ...
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... amphibious landing at Port Blair to take the surrender of the Japanese garrison, while Civil Affairs troops see to the welfare of the population.
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Summary: Delivery note inside can and dated 26 November 1945 indicates film was sent by O.C. 13 Section AKS to County Welfare Officer, Dundee (although film is noted as CALLING BLIGHTY No. 131).
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