... food, slitting its throat in correct halal ritual. Indians of the Regiment (potential PT instructors) training, with the Regimental War Memorial (inaugurated by Lord Kitchener in 1901) in the background: vaulting over a wooden horse (normal speed and slow ...

... Royal Army Medical Corps in Southern India during the Second World War, primarily showing off-duty scenes with his fellow doctors and ... in Medicine from Aberdeen University in 1938 and worked as a General Practitioner after his war service in the RAMC.

... waterfront at Bombay for the journey home. A map outlines the route followed. "The End. The Thaw Asiatic Expedition"

A travelogue following an American millionaire and his wife on their tour around India at the outbreak of the Second World War.

... School sports day, showing Burmese and Indian pupils of both sexes participating in typically British school sports (long jump, hurdle race, tug of war) and games (egg and spoon race, musical chairs, etc). (13 mins 58 secs)

Reel 3: (Can - Kalaw and ...

... life of the Royal Horse Guards at the beginning of the war and their transportation to Palestine, February 1940.

This film is ... chronicle of this famous regiment in the early part of the war. Much of it however is very poorly shot and edited together. ...

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I. 'THE FLEET SINKS AN ITALIAN WARSHIP IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.' A British naval patrol reportedly pursues three enemy ships for a day and a night. Shots of activity aboard RN vessels including lookouts on bridge. Enemy ships are sighted; action ...

... armoured cars enter a deserted fort in a swirl of dust. Shots of Italian troops surrendering. (14 June 1940)

II. 'PRISONERS OF WAR.' Italian prisoners are escorted to trucks by armed British troops and sent to desert internment camps. Coverage of the ...

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I. 'WAR IN THE SUDAN.' Map shows strategic importance of Atbara and Khartoum using the Nile as a ... of peace. Commentary outlines Mussolini's aggressive plans over scenes of pre-war agricultural tranquillity. Sudanese troops drive and march into action ...

... EAST.' Anthony Eden, the British Secretary of State for War arrives in Alexandria harbour on a tender to inspect the British Queen ... of a straight numerical run, occasionally broken or supplemented by WAR PICTORIAL NEWS SPECIAL EDITIONS or VARIANT issues. The ...

... Station at Jekko Falls, and afterwards worked for ATMN (Amalgamated Tin Mines of Nigeria). Mr. Morrison left Nigeria in 1939 after the outbreak of the Second World War. Films donated by Mrs. Lang Brown, who features in several reels as a small child.

Charles Kendall Collection

War-time service in the in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Zanzibar, the Trucial States, and St Helena & Ascension Islands.

Anderson Collection

War Memorial Ceremony in a small East African town with Governor and followed by military march past and African military band.