Home From Durance Vile (1914 1918)

Titles read: Boston, Lincs. Home from Durance Lincolnshire. Repatriated prisoners British and colonial POWs (prisoners of war) return to England. Shot of large ship moving past. CU Indian man; wearing turban; with arm in sling; holding cane. Group of this man; 2 other Indian soldiers; and 2 other colonials no smiles not home yet for them. Sailors carry empty stretcher onto ship; past British soldiers crowded on deck. Then they return with man on stretcher. ECU man s hand holding an object; which looks like a flat piece of rock; smaller than his hand; he turns it in his hand; showing both sides. Strange. Man smiling; holding this thing ( bullet which shot him ). ECU bottoms of wooden shoes held up to camera by 2 men; they turn them round to show top side man s face grinning; laughing on right. ; they move shoes up. DS British soldiers on deck; some waving. Another view of more men on deck. CU British Navy flag flying, fade to shot of group of men from various branches of military po