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Dutch Refugees Arrive In England

Reel Number: 220617-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1940

Country: EnglandUNITED KINGDOM

Location:

TC Begins: 16:22:04

TC Ends: 16:28:07

Duration: 00:06:03

Dutch Refugees Arrive In England May40 People off trawler at English port after fall of Belgium & Netherlands. Line of smart-looking Dutch refugees in best clothes walk past camera on dock, place luggage on back of truck, English policeman points them in right direction. Dutch sailors sorting out belongings of refugees on deck of trawler; Dutch flag flying from mast, observation ballon visible in sky. British & Dutch Naval officers confer. Ship carrying refugees arrives in dock; people milling about on dock w/ luggage. Dutch sailors line up for inspection & march off; Dutch & English Naval officers chatting; sailors march through gates of railway station, being counted as they pass; sailors board train; CU smiling Dutch sailor inside train. Civilian refugees leaving dock area; baggage unloaded from small pleasure boat by Dutch sailors, carried into railroad station. WWII. British Home Front. Evacuees.

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