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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unused INDIAN NEWS PARADE footage showing a squadron from the Royal Indian Navy under attack from Japanese aircraft.

I. Various shots of motor launches. Main sequence shows a Vosper 72 ft 6-inch motor torpedo boat exercising off Weymouth - she passes the mast of a sunken vessel and a moored Flower Class corvette.

II. Pan across Malta convoys, including (?) ...

Reel 1 (AYY 294-1) Africans in shirts and shorts carry sacks of cocoa beans on their heads. The sacks are unloaded from the lorry. The beans are stirred, tipped from a sieve into a tray and then put into ...

Two new African recruits look up in wonder at the signal flags of the W.D. Fleet. A squad of African troops march, before Sergeant M’Cabe calls the squad to attention. The film shows Semaphore ...

Civilians search ruins in the town, some digging the roadway; dead lie on roadway, others being carried on stretchers. Clocks on wall stopped at 4.45. Chinese wear protection i.e. pieces of rag over mouths. Panning shot - wreckage of large ...

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 ...

Amateur film with titles shot by Alaric Rowntree while serving as Director of Communal Feeding for the Ministry of Food (and Colonial Office) in Malta during the critical period from July to December 1942, and later shown to ministers and officials ...

Notes

Technical: no soundtrack held for this film.

Remarks: uncatalogued

Malta supply operation MG.1, March 1942. Cameraship is HMS Cleopatra.

Convoy MW.10 at sea with a screen of Hunt Class escorts and cruisers and destroyers of the covering ...