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FETE AT SAINTE MARIE [Main]

The crowd watching is mainly civilian, men and women in summer clothes. Out in the oval enclosure soldiers in athletics shorts and vests perform exercise routines with Indian clubs and rifles, after which they march off. The crowd includes a group of schoolgirls in uniform. The display continues with a tug of war and mop jousting, ending in a final close-up of the - very dirty - winning pair. A de…

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Contributors

  • Topical Film Company

Subject

  • EFG1914
  • British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps, Convalescent Depot 13
  • recreation, British military - sport: gymnastics
  • recreation, British military - casual: Highland fling
  • medical, British military - long term
  • 31/3(44)
  • Trouville, Seine-Maritime, France
  • Sainte-Marie-Cappel, Nord, France
  • Children
  • Race
  • World War I
  • Children and war
  • World War I

Type of item

  • motion pictures (visual works)
  • Film