Where BAOR Wives Will Live (1946)

Item title reads - Where BAOR (British Army of the Rhine) wives will live. Germany. German flats and houses are requisitioned for British soldiers and their families and the inhabitants rehoused. Various exterior shots of communal flats taken over by British soldiers, one waters the garden, the camera pans across the flats. Women queue at special shops built for the soldiers’ families, and men buy things inside. M/S inside NAAFI canteen. Views of the interior of the former hotel Lorenz in Brunswick, now a luxury club for soldiers and .(Auxiliary Territorial Service). M/S as they sit and write in the lounge. Various shots as soldiers collect furniture and crockery from an army warehouse for their new homes. Various shots as Sergeant Major Putland from the Royal Artillery furnishes his home. M/S of his wife back in Luton who says she doesn’t care where they live as long as they are together. M/S as a soldier from the Requisition Quartering team knocks on door of a house and explains to the