More Recruits For Fighting French (1942)

Titles read: “MORE RECRUITS FOR FIGHTING FRENCH“. Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). Various shots of a train pulling into Dire dawa station. It is loaded with French Colonial troops who left the Vichy control to join the Fighting French. Among them are Somalis and Askaris who crossed the frontier between French and British Somaliland in order to join the fight for the preservation of the French Colonial Empire. Several shots of soldiers leaving the train, collecting their rifles and milling about the platforms. 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 (1