| THE V.A.D.'S SMART AMBULANCE PRACTICE AT PEVENSEY BAY | ||
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| Tape Master: | 5116 | |
| Catalog #: | 365815 | |
| Clip Number: | 365815-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON 51 I | |
| Timecode: | 01:23:13 - 01:24:05 | |
| Location: | Pevensey Bay, East Sussex | |
| Year Shot: | 1917 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Ambulances LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Sussex OCCUPATIONS: Medical, Nurses WORLD WAR ONE, MILITARY: Medical | |
| Description: | See also catalog # 510580 "The V.A.D.s. Smart ambulance practice Pevensey Bay." Volunteer Aid Detachment teams practice. Shot from behind 2 rows of nurses in Red Cross type uniforms at outdoor religious service conducted by vicar or priest & assistants, in BG a building on which hang giant Union Jack and Red Cross Flags. Now for the practice session: MLS a team of 6 nurses unloading a "wounded" soldier on a stretcher out of an ambulance. MS male ambulance crew of 4 men past military age, lifting stretcher from ambulance doing the same; they wear military type uniforms, with small Red Cross shield patch on left pocket; 2 Boy Scouts are watching them. LS Ambulance workers and nurses carry stretchers into a makeshift field hospital (a shelter like a circular tent with the covering only starting at 4-5 ft. up; one can see part of what goes on inside. | |
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