Derbyshire Red Cross Flying Column

Summary

The Derbyshire Red Cross mobile blood donation unit collecting blood from volunteer donors in Ashbourne. Filmed during the Second World War.

Year:

1942

Duration:

0:15:50

Film type:

Black & White / Silent

Genre:

Home Movie

Master format:

16mm

Description

We see vehicles from the Red Cross mobile column driving along Church Street in Ashbourne. They are next seen parked in a field. Volunteers are tested (a pin prick to the ear) and then blood is taken into sterilised beakers. The donors lie on bunk beds set up outdoors during their session. Towards the end of the reel we see a group of American soldiers who stand around an American Red Cross lorry.


Credits

No credits specified


Notes

Kodak film stock date of 1942. The unit functioned from 1942 until 1945.