View of Market Square in Nottingham showing arrival of carriages transporting King George V and Queen Mary passing large crowds. We then see the King and Queen standing on a podium outside the Exchange Building. Next at the Forest Recreation Ground we again see the arrival of the carriages in front of a very large crowd of children who wave handkerchiefs. 'Hero of a Hundred Fights'. Newsreel images of Captain Albert Ball DSO leaving a building and posing for the camera. Other people in the group include his father (also Albert Ball) and possibly his brother Arthur Cyril Ball. We then see faked newsreel images of a First World War aerial dog fight including shots of barrage balloons. 'Nottingham Gun Week'. 'Reception of guns at City Boundary - mayor, sheriff and war savings officials'. We see a group of officials posing alongside a gun tractor. 'Grand procession Victoria Station'. We see views of a procession of tracked vehicles pulling large guns past the camera. The final shots show the guns on display in Market Square.
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The visit by King George V and Queen Mary to Nottingham took place on 23 June 1914. Albert Ball was killed in action in May 1917.