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Topical Budget 245-1: Fleet St. Entertains Disabled Fighters (1916)
 

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"FLEET STREET ENTERTAINS DISABLED FIGHTERS A hundred disabled men who have all been fitted with artificial limbs going off to the Press Club. They are able to run and jump almost as well as before they were disabled". Group of disabled men on crutches stand to attention, turn smartly on the order and move off. Men lining path of the Press Club cheer as two men run round the bend. Man with an artificial leg vaults over a chair. Disabled soldiers climb up onto the top of a double-decker bus.