WRNS (ledger title) [Main]

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Year: 1918
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Runtime: 9 mins
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Description: Two WRNS in overalls work out of doors under the supervision of a petty officer, one reassembling a stripped Lewis machine gun and the other cleaning a pistol. Indoors, probably the WRNS officers' mess, decorated with embroidered cushions, where a few of them sit reading or writing, all very camera-conscious. Outside a supervisor marches a group of WRNS in nursing uniform past a hut. Other WRNS in overalls work whitewashing the stones on a flower bed. A close-up of three of the women, again very camera-conscious. The two women complete assembling the Lewis gun and take it indoors. One woman works as a switchboard operator. A group of five WRNS clean the upturned hull of a coastal torpedo boat. Two others work painting the superstructure of another motor boat.
Work by members of the Women's Royal Naval Service at a Royal Navy coastal torpedo boat base on the south coast of England, probably 1917 or 1918.
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Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Royal Navy, Women's Royal Naval Service / operations, British naval - routine / weapons, British - smallarm: Lewis machine gun / operations, British naval - maintenance / society, British naval - domestic / communications, British naval - wire: telephone switchboard / 31/3(41) / GB, England / sex / camera / World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war
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Provider: Imperial War Museums
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Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
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Colour: Black & White
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Sound: Without sound
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