Source 10

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All Hands (Catalogue ref: IWM UKY 249)

The film shows two women who work at a railway station restaurant and they are busy chatting. They give away a lot of information that would have been very useful if overheard by an enemy spy.

Sailor’s girl:

Can I come and see you off?

Sailor:

I’ll have plenty to say if you don’t

Younger tea maid:

Oh, I could almost cry I could really

Older tea maid:

Well nobody’s stopping you

Younger tea maid:

That poor sailor on the Cambridge, waited all this time for his girl, now he’s got to sail tonight, really those fellow’s in whitehall have no consideration

Older tea maid:

What has he got to go all the way to Liverpool tonight?

Younger tea maid:

Portsmouth, but it’s nearly as far

Older tea maid:

Sickening

Younger tea maid:

He’s got to be there by nine, he’s got no time for a film or anything

Older tea maid:

Well we’ve all got to do our duty, war is war