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  1. Raid Damage Clear Up

    Date released
    25 Nov 1940
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    40/95
    NoS ID
    098404
    Story no
    1 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Men of the Bomb Disposal Squad - The Pioneers and Royal Engineers - at work on London’s blitz debris. While the Pioneers clear away the wreckage, the Royal Engineers carry out constructional repairs.

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  2. Minesweeper Shoots Down Raider

    Date released
    25 Nov 1940
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    40/95
    NoS ID
    098405
    Story no
    2 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

    HMS Swansea, now a minesweeper, once a paddle steamer, shot down a German raider which was about to attack her.

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  3. Necessity - The Mother of Invention

    Date released
    25 Nov 1940
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    40/95
    NoS ID
    098406
    Story no
    3 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Invent for economy, leads to girl donning her brother’s golf socks to protect her silk stockings, girl using a hairpin as a type of cigarette holder to enable her to get the last puff, and an errand boy...

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  4. Army Helps G.P.O.

    Date released
    25 Nov 1940
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    40/95
    NoS ID
    098407
    Story no
    4 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    To relieve the pressure that has been put on Post Office Engineers, members of the Royal Corps of Signals are repairing telephone services which have been put out of action through bomb damage.

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  5. More Italian Prisoners

    Date released
    25 Nov 1940
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    40/95
    NoS ID
    098408
    Story no
    5 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    The crew of an Italian submarine are landed at a Scottish port en route to an internment camp. There is some reason to believe that these are the men responsible for the fifth sinking of the "Ark Royal".

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  6. Sweeping the Seas

    Date released
    25 Nov 1940
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    40/95
    NoS ID
    098409
    Story no
    6 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Nazi mines, moored and magnetic, are taking a toll of many ships besides our own, and to the men of the minesweepers and the Submarine Service this is one of the many hazards which they face daily.

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  7. South African Children Welcome Evacuees

    Date released
    25 Nov 1940
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    40/95
    NoS ID
    098410
    Story no
    7 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    English child evacuees are entertained at the Governor General’s residence at Westbrooke by South African children. They are then the guests of a Cape Town cinema where they attend a matinee, and then for...

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  8. The Tragedy of Coventry

    Date released
    25 Nov 1940
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    40/95
    NoS ID
    098411
    Story no
    8 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Poignant scenes at mass burial of 172 victims of Nazi air raid on Coventry.

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