Malins in uniform, seated in a deckchair in a garden while taking tea with his first wife and mother-in-law. Geoffrey Malins was one of two official British film cameramen assigned to the Western Front during the First World War. He is chiefly remembered today for the film 'The Battle of the Somme' shown to huge success in British cinemas in the late summer of 1916.
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Armistice celebrations in Birmingham, 1918 IWM (Q 63690)