25 Oct. 1943. The hospital ship Leinster arrives at Malta and ties up alongside the dockyard wharf. The patients are offloaded and put into ambulances. The hospital ship Dinard steams into the Grand ...
23 Nov. 1943.The Prime Minister with Lord Gort is shown around the dockyard by Vice Admiral Hamilton and Admiral Superintendent Rear Admiral Mackenzie. Churchill gives the V for Victory sign and smokes a ...
US President Theodore Roosevelt, General Eisenhower and staff visit Malta.
From the seat of a jeep President Roosevelt addresses Lord Gort and Maltese personalities and ...
British Army training film detailing the rigorous physical training techniques used in the Middle East School of Physical Training, with an introduction by General Alexander stressing the need for troops to be "fighting ...
21 January. The Queens Royal Regiment in Bren gun carriers advancing along the road from Tarhunah on the last lap to Tripoli. The regiment marching in single file along the side of the road.
23 ...
Men of the 126 Native Labour Company, 18th Group, Pioneers receiving their pay from Lieutenant Derrarb of a French cavalry regiment near Souk El Arba, Tunisia.
Men ...
Sir Godfrey Huggins, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, visits Richard Casey and the 237 Rhodesian Squadron, RAF at El Daba. The Prime Minister and Lieutenant-Colonel Day leave ...
Indian sappers and miners clearing a pass in the mountains south west of the Mareth Line for the advance of the Fourth Indian Division. Cave dwellers in the Matmata mountains ...
Indian sappers and miners detect and clear mines left by the retreating Germans on the road beyond Gabs. The Fourth Indian Division Field Artillery in an attack on Mount ...
Indian troops with enemy equipment captured after the battle for Wadi Akarit. The local population of the Gabs Gap returning to their homes. The town of Sfax.
Troops of ...
6 May. Seventeen Mitchell bombers flying in formation to bomb accompanied by nine Spitfires. A formation of Marauder bombers. Another formation of bombers.
Scots Guards vehicles passing a corner in ...
The Commander-in-Chief visits repatriated prisoners of war at a tea party given at the British Embassy in Cairo.
General Montgomery with Lady Lampson and South African, ...
The General Officer Commanding the Palestine Base opens a leave camp near Nathanya, Palestine, for troops stationed in Egypt and Palestine.
Brigadier I C Cameron, the ...
The 4th Indian Division in the assault on the Enfidaville Line.
A battery of 25 pounder guns in action in support of an Indian infantry attack. The troops loading pack ...
The 4th Indian Division in Enfidaville are visited by the Corps Commander.
Indian signallers laying a line through the town as it is attacked by shell fire. Scenes ...
The 4th Indian Division prepares for the Battle of Tunis.
Gurkhas looking at scale models of the features they are planning to attack. Indians sharpening their kukris ...
Scenes in the interior of two Armoured Control Vehicles near Medjez El Bab.
Panning shot from a radio operator receiving a message to the operator handing the message to ...
The 4th Indian Division moving up the Tunisian roads to their concentration area.
Vehicles of the 4th Indian Division moving along the road from Teboursouk towards ...
Edited film with commentary depicting the Chindits setting out on Operation Longcloth, their first raiding expedition behind Japanese lines, under the leadership of Brigadier Orde Wingate.
Titles: 'Public ...
The arrival of General von Arnim at Maison Blanche aerodrome on his way to internment.
Von Arnim arrives at the airport and is escorted to a waiting staff car. Von Arnim ...
The cruiser Aurora with the King on board sails into Grand Harbour, Valletta. Field Marshal Viscount Gort leaves the Customs House steps and boards the Admiral's barge. The King arrives alongside the ...
The Commanding Officer of the King's Dragoon Guards is presented to the King, followed by the 12th Lancers and the 4th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery. The King drives up and the Commanding Officer of ...
A long stretch of beach. Beach with rocks in the foreground. Tents among the trees and bushes. A man walks through the trees to his tent. Another man walks to his tent. Two men walk into the sports store ...
King George VI visits Malta.
Crowds lining the steps as the cruiser HMS Aurora passes in front of them. HMS Aurora with the King aboard. The barge approaching the shore. ...
