“Cobber“ Kain’s Colours (1940)

Full title reads: “’Cobber’ Kain’s Colours“. Manchester, Lancashire. VS of Miss Joyce Phillips presenting colours to air cadet training squadron on behalf of her fiancee New Zealand fighter pilot Cobber Edgar James Kain who was to have performed the ceremony but who was killed in a flying accident in Gaye, France a short time before. The ceremony is performed in his memory on the football pitch at Belle Vue, Manchester. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewe