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French commemoration

Week number 47-21

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:video
Length:00:51
Publication date:16 May 1947
User:Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
Source:WEEKNUMMER472-HRE00029827
Tags:Zeeland,  oorlogsmonument,  Kapelle,  4 en 5 mei 

Former French resistance fighters that fought against the Germans in Zeeland at the May days of 1940, hold a commemoration ceremony for their on Walcheren fallen comrades at a French war cemetery in Kapelle. A French flag flies half-mast. Dutch and French soldiers and civilians listen to a speech by the French ambassador(?) Rivière. A man holds a moment of silence at the monument and then makes a walk-round the graves with company, followed by inhabitants of Zeeland. 00:22 from right to left French colonel and colonel Metting van Rijn(?).