The duties of a detachment of 663 Squadron Army Air Corps during a 4-month tour in Belize, with particular reference to the hazards of operating in humid climate and mountainous jungle terrain.

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Two `true' stories which illustrate the work of both home missions and overseas missionary work.

One story set in Basildon New Town is about Sunday School and two boys. Inlcudes scense of the new town and building sites. The other ...

TV documentary which examines the possibility of an honourable settlement between Britain and Rhodesia.

The programme reviews the worsening situation in Rhodesia - political oppression, persecution of ...

Amateur compilation made to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of HMS Ajax in the Battle of the River Plate (Rio de Plata) combines film shot during the veterans' visit to Buenos Aires (Argentina), including laying of ...

Reel One. HMS Albion enters Singapore. Sequence shot from the quayside as troops disembark with their kit to board waiting transport. A band is playing to welcome them. A soldier kisses a baby held up by his ...

Amateur film shot by Ordnance Officer Lieutenant G Moss, assisted by Ordnance Artificer Don Hayward, on board HMS Belfast during the ship's Far Eastern commission under command of Captain Morgan-Giles, gives disjointed ...

Activities of HMS Bermuda in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The Mayor of Iskandron (Iskenderun ?), Mr Arkakyam, is welcomed on board HMS Bermuda by Vice-Admiral Reid, and introduced to senior ...

"HMS Birmingham. Ceremony of the Keys at Gibraltar, December 1955." (Taken from CNI records.)

HMS Birmingham enters Algiers firing national salute; returned by shore batteries. C-in-C Med and ...

HMS Bulwark sails from Grand Harbour at 0900 on Monday 10 December, 1956, to the accompaniment of bands and cheering parties from the other ships. The camera is on HMS Eagle

LS off the ...

Film shot by HMS Bulwark's Entertainment Officer, showing some of the ways in which the ship's company amused themselves while anchored off Famagusta with no shore leave other than to a Rest Camp ...

HMS Centaur embarks men of 45 Royal Marine Commando, Ferret armoured cars of 16/5 Lancers, and RAF Belvedere helicopters for the voyage from Aden to Tanganyika.

LS pan over Aden ...

I. Families Day, Portsmouth, 1 May, 1959. HA as guests arrive by launch and onboard the dockyard tug Grinder. The spectators crowd the island as the Sea Hawk FGA.6s of 801 Squadron make a mass start. Visitors watch a dive- ...

HMS Chatham sets sail from Hong Kong; also sailpast by ships of the Ocean Wave deployment, passing the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia.

During the spring cruise of the Home Fleet, HMS Eagle enters Grand Harbour, Malta.

Aerial LS down the length of Grand Harbour, Malta - Eagle lies near Bighi Bay, while in the inner harbour ...

HMS Eagle takes on stores from RFA Retainer, prior to relieving Ark Royal on station in the Mediterranean.

MSs to Retainer as she steams abreast to starboard of the cameraship, HMS Eagle. Men ...

I. AA Defence of ships. LA.MS of twin 40mm AA as it trains and fires - destroyer's funnel in the background, frame right. MS in rear of 6x40mm on aircraft carrier - mounting trains and fires.

II. Aerial MLSs of HMS Eagle underway with escorting ...

A pictorial record of activity on HMS Hermes during her second commission, starting in the Mediterranean and ending in Hong Kong.

Aerial sequence showing HMS Hermes entering Grand Harbour ...

Amateur colour film shot by Royal Marine Sergeant Graham Ransom of teh 6th Assault Squadron on board the assault ship HMS Intrepid during Operation Corporate, between 26 April and 5 May 1982, shows training on voyage south past Ascension Island, ...

(Part 1) (a) Visit to Grand Turk Island: cable parties prepare to enter harbour, pilot comes on board. Shot from bridge. Quartermaster sounds by hand lead line. Port anchor goes - cable running out. Commissioner arrives on ...

HMS Kenya in Mombasa, November 1942.

Races in a pulling regatta in Mombasa Harbour (7th to 10th November, 1952). Remembrance Day Parade, 9th November; units taking part include Royal Navy, ...

HMS Kenya arrives in Mombasa, 23rd October, 1952.

Desmond O'Hagan (Provincial Commissioner for the Coast Province and Chairman of the Emergency Defence Committee) arrives, and departs after ...

A football match between the crew of HMS Leeds Castle fishery protection vessel, wearing shirts emblazoned with "HMS Leeds Castle 1st Commission", and an unidentified team. The match appears to be played near the seafront on ...

Observers on a coastal range report the fall of shot to HMS Lion as she carries out a bombardment.

A party arrive by jeep at the coastal site to observe the bombardment and report the fall of ...

(Tape 1) (i) General views on board inflatable sea boat heading towards "HMS Liverpool" off the Monserrat coast at sunset. Shots along the waterline of "Liverpool". Moon above Montserrat (at night). (ii) ...

Crewmen from HMS Londonderry enjoy the hospitality of the Anguillan islanders.

A party from HMS Londonderry, two ratings and a petty officer, enjoy some liberty on the island of ...

(Tape 1) Fitness training on board HMS Nottingham for the runners taking part: running and mat exercises, aerobics, exercises on flight deck. Set-up shots, including preparation of fancy dress, including the ...

I. MS as HMS Ocean passes right to left, steaming through the breakwater to leave Grand Harbour - the crew line the side for leaving port and Fireflies and Sea Furies are ranged aft. A Westland Dragonfly hovers over ...

MS off the starboard quarter of HMS Ocean in Grand Harbour - crew man the side as the ship departs. Carrier passes the mole where the camera is situated - Sea Furies and Fireflies parked on deck - sea calm - crew give ...

HMS Protector, guardship to the Falkland Islands Dependencies, assists the survey ship RRS Shackleton after damage by ice in the waters off South Georgia.

LS of one of Protector's ...

HMS Protector takes off a Royal Society expedition from the island of Tristan da Cunha, evacuated the previous year after a volcanic eruption.

Captain Graham of the Protector meets members of ...

I. Gemini inflatables carry ashore a party of marines and sailors from HMS Rothesay. The sailors, armed with No 4 rifles, pick their way over the inhospitable terrain. They comb the beach area. A prisoner is brought in, hands ...

Amateur film shot by Midshipman Ian Shuttleworth while serving on HMS Salisbury in the Far East between August 1963 and September 1964 during Confronation in Borneo records leave in Hong Kong, carrier and helicopter activity, Crossing the Line ...

Recruiting film for the Royal Navy/WRNS, featuring the guided missile destroyer HMS Sheffield, and and WRENs on Gibraltar, showing the interrelationship between the Ratings and Officers on board and the WRENs involved in shoreside support. Film ...

(Tape 1) (i) Interior shots of helicopter in flight: aerial views of Montserrat and of "HMS Southampton" (D90). Flight over island: lush vegetation gives way to smoking fissures and drifts of ash. Focus on ...

On 23rd January 1955, HMS Superb on passage from Kingston, Jamaica to Callao in Peru passed through the Panama Canal.

Superb approaches Gatun Lock from Cristobal and passes through the locks ...

I. Reel Two. LS along the quayside at Labuan as soldiers disembark from HMS Tiger. HA from the ship to the quayside - a group of men disperse after a short briefing, soldiers await transport, their arms laid ...

C-in-C Mediterranean, Admiral Sir Alexander Bingley, leaves Malta in HMS Tiger to render a salute to the US task group carrying President Eisenhower.

Aerial sequence showing HMS Tiger at sea ...

HMS Tyne at Gibraltar. Beating the Retreat.

Long and close-up shots of complete band. CUs of individual bandsmen. Royal Marines bandsmen are in helmets, the "Dukes" in caps.

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HMS Eagle at sea, flying off Sea Hawks and Sea Venoms, and at Malta as HMS Victorious comes in to join her in Grand Harbour.

Onboard HMS Eagle at sea. LS aft along the deck as a range of 806 ...

En route to Hong Kong HMS Victorious exercises her crew in riot squad drill. The exercise is not taken very seriously. In Reels Two and Three Victorious has reversed course and is steaming ...

A boisterous crossing the line ceremony on HMS Warrior off West Africa, and Exercise Shop Window, in which South African military and civilian VIPs are taken onboard to see the ship put through its ...

Taken in February 1953. Includes 400ft of Vanguard entering dry dock in Gibraltar.

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Summary: cataloguing incomplete as the film has not been viewed - information is taken from CNI records.

Family life in Tanganyika, including everyday scenes, and the work of white nurses in improving the health and standards of the people.