Repairing motorcycles at the RAOC workshops. Men working a circular saw in carpenters shop.
British and Maltese children take lessons together at the school at St Andrews Barracks with English and ...
Soldiers and sailors convalescing from bomb wounds at the Convalescent Depot at St Georges in Malta. Playing quoits, gardening, bathing in St George's Bay.
Two platoons of the 2nd Battalion Queen's ...
Free boxing fair and fun fair at St Elmo, Lower Valletta, run by the army for the services and also open to civilians. Bomb damage visible in the hall, the largest hall in Europe. Soldiers and civilians ...
First official public function attended by Governor Lord Gort and Malta's first wartime investiture, held at Castille Square, Valletta. Fifty awards made to men (and one woman) of all three services and ...
HMS Welshman brings supplies to Malta, the ship is unloaded of oil, chilled meat and ammunition.
Malta Home Guard on parade, inspected by Brigadier Beckett, CRA at St Peter's Square, Hamrun. Four ...
The work of a Victory Kitchen, a government relief scheme. Vegetables and fruit are brought to Pitkali market by farmers then bought in bulk by a representative of the Communal Feeding Department. Carts ...
AYY 193/1. 24-25 Feb and 2-12 March. Men on non-urgent work take cover in rock shelters when public sirens are sounded but the remainder work on until the Red Flag is hoisted on the Palace Tower, Fort St ...
The Chief Censor Captain Stafford and Lieutenant Edwards censoring mail. Cutting a sentence out of a letter and stamping it with the censor's stamp. Two men writing letters in the courtyard of the ...
Ships entering the Grand Harbour are the Rochester Castle, Melbourne Star and Port Chalmers. Cheering men from the Royal Malta Artillery watch. The damaged bows of the Brisbane Star. The destroyer G77 ( ...
The crew visit the 23rd Battery of the 11th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Malta Artillery at San Pietra. They look at one of the 4.5 inch guns and chat with the Maltese gunners. At Benghaisa they ...
The GOC Major General Scobie visits the Command Fair to see a boxing match in aid of the Malta Convoy Fund. He leaves the fair accompanied by Brigadier de la Bere and Major Crossless.
Football ...
Demonstrations by assault party with bayonets and hand grenades at Ghajn Tuffieha Bay, Malta. Bren gun bullets hitting the water.
Rehearsed and actual ceremony of the presentation of the George Cross by Lord Gort at a parade in the presence of local and military VIPs in Palace Square.
The Guard of ...
Workers at Senglea waterfront, repairing the Brisbane Star. Bomb-damaged bastion of Cospicus. Workers looking at the Cross, which is guarded by the Dockyard Police and Royal Marines at Hammerton Wharf ...
The George Cross exhibited at Zebbug.
A Spitfire. Barrage of HAA in the sky. Parachute coming down. Ju 88s dipping to bomb Luqa. Two submarines at Manoel: the submarines' smoke screen. A Ju 88 on ...
RAF protection for two convoys. Spitfires and Beaufighters take off. Unloading from ships SS Troilus and SS Orari. A smoke screen covers Grand Harbour and the dockyard during Alerts. The army and Royal ...
26 Feb 1944. Recruits read the sign at the Recruiting Office then proceed to the office. They draw kit from the Quartermaster's stores. The Provost Sergeant hoists the Union Jack for reveille. Bugler ...
Physical training exercises at Mena Camp, Egypt. Wrestling. Troops doing handsprings and back rolls. Sergeant Instructor J Robinson giving the command. Exercises on vaulting horse and weight putting. ...
26 Feb 1942. Wheat bags at Port Tewfik, Egypt. Labourers carrying bags.
26 Feb 1942. Commander in Chief visiting No 8 Reinforcement Camp, Mena. Inspecting buildings and soldiers' tent. Also visits ...
AYY 198-5. 8 Mar. 1942. Teams of the 9th Battalion Indian Company and the Cyprus Regiment Company at Camp Polymedia line up on the playing field and the captains toss a coin. The Cypriot team have "C" on ...
AYY 199-1. 19 Mar. 1942. Firing of 2lb anti-tank guns at a practice shoot in Mena. Gun team in action, gun fired on and off the lorry.
AYY 199-2-1. 7 Mar. 1942. General Auchinleck holds investiture ...
British prisoners of war travel from Italy to Cairo via Alexandria.
The hospital ship Llandovery Castle enters Alexandria Docks. Medical officers board the ship. Wounded ...
8 Mar. 1942. First stage of General Auchinleck's journey from Cairo to Baghdad. He boards a plane at Heliopolis Aerodrome. The plane stops at Lydda (near Jaffa) to refuel. On arrival at Baghdad he is met ...
Members of 606 Company the Cyprus Pioneer Corps (Alien Unit) in Famagusta.
Palestinian troops rushing out of billets on an alarm being given. Fixing bayonets. Troops ...
Cyprus Coastal Defence Battery practising Action Stations.
Telephone orderly receiving message at observation post from Naval Command that an unidentified ship is in the ...
13 April 1942. British prisoners of war returned from Italy recording a broadcast to their families at the 15th Scottish Hospital, Egypt. Captain Peter Haddon is in charge. The dialogue is radioed direct ...
Scenes in Andimeshk, Iran. US Dodge lorries handed over by US personnel to Soviet personnel, who drive them away.
Notes
Remarks: no dope sheet in file.
HRH emplanes at Heliopolis, Egypt, with his staff and arrives at Baghdad, Iraq. He inspects guard of honour. Shots of General Quinan (GOC 10th Army) and General Lane, AAQMG (Assistant Adjutant and ...
Yorkshire Hussars in Kokkinotrimithia, Cyprus, training on new A10, A13 and Valentine tanks. Plane instruction course.
Notes
Dope sheet AYY 215/4.
April 1942. Turkish Military Mission in the grounds of General Auchinleck's home in Cairo. The members are General Sefik Cakmak, Chief of Air Staff; Lieutenant-Colonel Pahsin Yazici, Major Calal Alcoc, ...
Poles picking up their kits as they leave Tehran. They clamber up into the lorry. Polish cadets training, "eyes right" into camera then "eyes front". Polish NCO shouting the drill orders. The lorries ...
Ships chartered by the Red Cross to alleviate starvation in Greece. Flour arriving by lorry and being loaded onto Swedish Red Cross ship Halleren. Swedish flag on ship. The First Officer supervising ...
HRH inspects Polish civilians at the Polish camp at Tehran.
HRH in a group with the British Minister.
He takes the salute of the Persian army guard of honour and inspects the guard.
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I. His Excellency Governor Wooley in his new Governors Service Uniform inspecting a company of infantry of the Cyprus Volunteer Force at Nicosia. Speech.
II. HRH The Duke of Gloucester on tour. HRH ...
20-27 May 1942. HRH visiting ruins at Baalbek. He is escorted by the Tcherkess Guard. HRH in Damascus. Shots taken from the car driving the Duke to La Residence, home of General Catroux. The Duke at the ...
Crashed Stuka plane with pilot's body burning under fuselage. Troops from the 8th Indian Brigade advance in the background with a Bren carrier. Close up of burning body.
Italian POW being escorted ...
ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) recruits at a camp in Sarafand, Palestine. The women are from Palestine, Yemen, Transjordan, India and there are also Jewish exiles from Europe. The staff are mainly ...
Women's Auxiliary Army Services (South African) at 19th Base General Hospital, Geneifa, Egypt.
Doctor and nurse in operating theatre. Patient being given oxygen. Wounded ...
Major General Pienaar at the Headquarters of the 1st South African Division at Gazala, Libya, giving an interview to war correspondents. They include Alan Moorhead of the Daily Express, Alex Clifford of ...
24 June. On the morning of 23 June, units holding the Sollum-Halfaya area began to evacuate and move eastwards towards Matruh. South African armoured cars watch the escarpment westwards from Halfaya for ...
Tanks and troops at Port Tewfik, Egypt.
Anti-tank guns being towed away by trucks. Labourers at work on dockside. Valentine Mark III tanks running onto tank transporters ...
Movement of transport towards the fighting at the Battle of El Alamein.
Transport, anti-aircraft guns and tanks moving forwards towards El Alamein positions. Shelling of ...
I.The Duke of Gloucester visits Headquarters, 30 Corps, on the Alamein Line. He is greeted by Major General Ramsden, Corps Commander, and Major General Pienaar and Lieutenant-General Morshead, General ...
Attack against the enemy at El Ruweisat, south of the El Alamein Box.
Attack by 161 Brigade, 5th Indian Division and the 22nd and 23rd Armoured Brigades on El Ruweisat ...
I. 14 June. The Duke arrives in Bihar Province and is received by the Governor, His Excellency Sir Thomas Stewart.
II. 16 June. He visits British and Indian hospitals and also troops from Burma ...
Soldiers on a tank as it travels on a transporter.
(Reel 9) American tank crews attached to the 3rd County of London Yeomanry line up as the cook sounds the gong for lunch. The men sitting and ...
The Duke's tour of Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Aden.
HRH arrives at Heliopolis Airport in Cairo, takes the salute, inspects a guard of honour of the 4/7 Rajputs and says ...
Observation procedure preceding a long range gun attack.
Men from the 426th South Nottinghamshire (Hussars) Battery, Royal Horse Artillery firing a 5.5-inch gun. ...
