Swedish Red Cross Bombed Aka Sweedish, AKA Swedish Ambulance Bombed (1936)

No title, paperwork reads - Swedish ambulance bombed in Abyssinia (Swedish Red Cross Unit). Swedish Red Cross convoy is bombed in Southern Abyssinia (Ethiopia). Footage of the convoy before it left. M/S of Red Cross parcels being loaded onto a truck, C/U of one crate with the cross on the side. M/S of acting leader of the unit, Pastor Svenson, putting his helmet on. L/S of the lorry full of crates, M/S of red crosses on the roofs of the lorries and trucks. M/S as the convoy makes its way along. M/S of its chief physician Doctor Hylander with his wife and two children before the attack, he has been seriously wounded and all the equipment destroyed. Note: this story was originally part of ’News in a Nutshell.’ FILM ID:851.3 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 R
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