King George V and other officials review uniformed boy cadets in formation at Academy in England. King talks to the smallest boy and comes away smiling. .
Queen Mary, of Great Britain, reviews elements of the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), including motorized ambulance unit. All WAAC members in uniform, in formation. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Following a State Funeral at Westminster Abbey, coffin bearing Nurse Edith Cavell's body is carried out and put on gun carriage. Mourners attend the funeral. Mourners, sailors with wreaths, nurses and other services in procession with horse-drawn carriage move on road. Soldiers lift the coffin. Coffin transferred at a ship for its transport to Norfolk for burial at Norwich Cathedral. (This state funeral followed disinterment of Cavell's body in Belgium, after her execution on October 12, 1915).
Young men and women parade in a street with placards and banners in support of Mossadeq (Mosaddegh) and nationalization. Military passes in trucks. Policemen line up outside palace. Young man arrested. Stones on the road after demonstrations
A Supermarine Spitfire Mk1 of No 41 Squadron RAF (Squadron code: "EB" on its fuselage) is readied for take-off by a ground crew at RAF Hornchurch, during World War 2. A Squadron Spitfire fighter aircraft lands. Spitfire planes in flight as seen from the tail of a slower flying camera plane (bomber). The Spitfirers buzz it from the rear in mock attack passes. Various views of the fighters maneuvering about behind the camera plane. As film ends, the Spirtfires begin to join up into formations
Film opens showing several Royal Air Force fighter pilots writing combat reports, as they sit in a Squadron operations room, during the Battle of Britain in World War 2. Closeup of one report, shows it is on a prepared Combat Report form. On the one shown, the pilot describes an engagement with German Dornier bombers on a blitz run on September 20th over Dover, at 12 thousand feet. The pilot notes the number of attacks and their intervals, at the bottom of the form. Scene shifts to closeups of other pilots completing their reports. (These pilots are probably with RAF 222 Squadron, flying Supermarine Spitfire airplanes out of RAF Station Hornchurch, in Essex, England.)
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