Medicine (1917)

Medicine. Location of events unknown. World War One; casualties. Medical; military. Wounded British servicemen on Cunard liner trip for some serious rest & recuperation. Stretchers carried up gang plank. Shot on deck; with men and nurses crowded everywhere; a string quartet playing. Another shot of same. CU a man - music hall performer type comedian - entertaining; telling a joke or something as soldiers and nurses watch. CU 3 men standing by ship’s wheel; one of them; an RAF soldier who must have been in a burning plane; has a horrifying scarred & disfigured burned face. Very sad but actually he seems fairly happy. GV soldiers applauding. FILM ID: 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