Very brief scene of Lord Roberts and his staff boarding SS Dunnottar Castle at Southampton docks for the trip to South Africa, 23rd December 1899.

Notes

Title: this has been taken from the Warwick catalogue for 1900

Production: this film is Warwick catalogue number 5521a

Summary: the identification of this film was made by James Barker, late of the Department of Information Retrieval, Imperial War Museum, in work for the television series 'Flashback'

Technical: this item is held on a single reel with films IWM 1025a-f, the can is marked as IWM 1025