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City of Westminster Mayor's Appeal for Merchant Navy Comforts
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1942Item number (ISN):1008Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:NEW BRUNSWICK. PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OFAccession:1985-0288Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1942Description:Viscount R.B. Bennett, former prime minister of Canada, speaks to the camera about the Merchant Navy Comforts Service on the occasion of the special week dedicated to that organization. Bennett urges his listeners to support the Service with funds and supplies and goes on to describe its work. Camera pans to include a merchant seaman who relates briefly the ordeal of having his ship sunk by a U-boat, his prison ship wrecked on a reef and his internment in an Italian prison camp. Bennett speaks of the perils faced by the Merchant Navy and of its crucial role in achieving victory in the end. <3mn>Subjects:ARMED FORCES~FUND RAISING~GREAT BRITAIN~MERCHANT MARINE~MERCHANT SEAMEN~PERSONAL NARRATIVES~WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 ~BENNETT, RICHARD B.Language:EnglishNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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