Youngest Woman Billeting Officer (1940)

Full title reads: “YOUNGEST WOMAN BILLETING OFFICER“. Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Several shots of Mrs Barbara Meadows, the youngest woman billeting officer, calling on house in Huntingdon in order to find people willing to take in bombed-out families. Mrs Meadows talking about her appointment as billeting officer at the age of twenty. She also states that she is prepared to use compulsion in order to find homes for the homeless. (Mute & Track Negs.) FILM ID:1063.4 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the e