WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 365-2 (French version, fragment) [Main Title]

I. French language version of a newsreel item on King George V in France, 9th August 1918.

II. French language version of a newsreel item on members of the Ministry of Food at a food conference in London, August 1918.

III. French language version of a newsreel item on British treatment of German prisoners, Western Front, August 1918.

IV. French language version of a newsreel item on General Rosado, the new Portuguese commander, shown with his staff, then posed by himself, probably in England, August 1918.

At Rouen the King poses for a group photograph with Field Marshal Haig, Marshal Foch and General Pétain. At Third Army headquarters, Frohen-le-Grand, later in the day he decorates three men with the Victoria Cross. They are the Reverend T B Hardy, attached to 8th Battalion, the Lincolnshire Regiment, and Sergeant William Gregg and Corporal William Beesley, both of 13th Battalion, the Rifle Brigade. Gregg and Beesley pose together for a photograph.

Leaving Grosvenor House, the site of the Ministry of Food, are Major E A Belcher, the Director of the Fruit and Vegetables Department and S Walton, Assistant Food Controller. The delegates to the conference come down the outside stairs of the building into its gardens. Portrait shots of Belcher and Walton.

British soldiers rest beside a house equipped as a YMCA establishment. With them are German prisoners, some of whom are wounded. A soldier gives a German who is lying on a stretcher a cup of tea. The men are all camera-conscious, but the gesture seems nevertheless natural.

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