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. ...

The Punjab Premier visits troops.

Sikander Hayat Khan arrives at Eighth Army Tactical Headquarters in the Western Desert. He meets Lieutenant-General Ramsden and ...

Exercise at Mombasa, Kenya.

121 Force scale the cliff face, defended by the King's African Rifles. Lieutenant-Colonel M M Alston-Roberts-West is commanding the 2nd ...

Film of locations of the landings made on 5 May 1942 when the Royal Navy carrying the Commandos and the 29th Infantry Brigade landed at Courrier Bay and the landing point " ...

June 1942. Newspaper close-ups referring to the Hur "menace" in Sind, including reports of the derailment of the Lahore mail train. Desert and camel scenes. Two Hurs are arrested by police. An army ...

I. 21 December. Opening with shots of African sappers unloading folding boats from a truck, the film shows the men working the winch and then carrying road bearers past the camera. The camera introduces ...

Rangoon 25 January 1942. Views of a busy street with several civilians running (hurrying for shelter after an air raid alarm was sounded, according to the cameraman's Dope Sheet). View across the Hlaing river. View of the Grand Pagoda. Heavily ...

Burma, 30 January 1942. American Volunteer Group (AVG), Two Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk fighter aircraft warming up for take-off on a dusty airstrip. Panning shot across airstrip. Tomahawk aircraft taking off. Another Tomahawk aircraft taxiing to take-off, ...

Burma, late January-early February 1942. Shots of parts of a crashed Japanese bomber. Four civilians carrying part of the crashed aircraft wing. Group of civilians crowded around the dead body of a Japanese airman. The body lies partially clothed on ...

Rangoon docks, Burma 4 February 1942. View over dock area. Large number of Indian troops disembarking from a troop ship and marching along the docks. View over the harbour. Civilians working past a British soldier in full kit wearing a pith helmet. ...

Government House, Rangoon, Burma 3 February 1942. Brief shot of a Burmese policeman standing guard in the grounds. Sustained view of Government House. Shot of Union Jack flag. Panning shot over the Shwe Dragon Pagoda and over the city of Rangoon. The ...

Burma (probably Rangoon), 11 February 1942. The Governor of Burma, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, walks with Major General A V T Wakely and his officers in a wooded area past a small wooden building. Dorman-Smith and General Wakely walk past a small group ...

Burma February 1942. RAF Squadron 113. Bristol Blenheim Mk VI aircraft in flight, various air-to-air shots. Shot of rear gunner position. Various interior shots of pilot and a rear view of the navigator (identified from the cameraman's original Dope ...

I. Magwe, Burma, 24 February 1942: Bristol Blenheim Mk IV of RAF Squadron 113 on bombing raid on Mataban. Shots of Bristol Blenheim Mk IV aircraft on the runway at Magwe refuelling and preparing for take-off. A brief shot of a small dog being pulled by ...

I. Burma, late February 1942. Mid shots of fires in the distance, long shots of aircraft in the sky (poor quality), probably footage of a bombing raid on Magwe airfield.

II. Magwe, Burma, 27 February 1942. Brief shot of the cameraman's (?) ...

22 February 1942: short panning shot over camouflaged tented camp on the edge of the airfield at Magwe, Burma, ending with group shot of personnel of RAF Squadron 113 outside of one of the larger tents posing for the cameraman. Individual shots of ...

I. Toungoo, Burma, late February 1942. Shots of the bomb damage to the city, charred trees, buckled corrugated sheeting, rubble and partially demolished building.

II. Toungoo, Burma, late February 1942. Group of men walking along a street ...