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 ...
