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1930 FRANCE: DISASTERS - First exclusive pictures from R101 Disaster
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3:22Now PlayingDate: 1st January 1930
Location: England, United Kingdom
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION - First exclusive pictures of R101 Disaster
FRANCE: Near Beauvais
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Pan smouldering wreckage of R101 / Investigators at scene / Newspaper headline
R101 Airship in flight / French ceremony honouring victims of tragedy
FRANCE:
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Boulogne bodies of R101 disaster conveyed home by British warship HMS Tempest / French Naval personnel bow heads as coffins pass by / Coffins loaded onto warship
ENGLAND: London: Victoria
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Nighshot Crowds watch vehicles transport coffins of R101 victims
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