Indian Film Unit shots. Supply point in Eritrea. Weighing sugar and tea for the troops. Troops eat chapatties for lunch. A British NCO chats with the Havildar Sahib. Army bakery at work. Delighted Indian ...
Shots from Indian Film Unit. Capture of Massawa, Eritrea. Indian troops, Italian prisoners. Garwali Regiment. Free French Commander. General Heath watches operations. Sunken vessel in harbour.
Film made by the South African Film Unit. South African troops in Abyssinia at Fort Tessenai. General Pienaar. Italian prisoners. Indian troops. Duke of Aosta as prisoner inspecting troops ...
Film made by the Indian Film Unit. Indian troops at Damascus, Syria. Entry of General Catroux. Named Free French officers. French cavalry, damaged buildings, etc.
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The Forestry Company of the Cyprus Volunteer Force at Troodos, Cyprus. The men fall in and fetch arms and march along the forest paths. They rake away pine cones and sticks as fire prevention and fell ...
Mules on Mount Olympus. Scottish soldiers eating at Othello's Tower at Famagusta, Cyprus. Soldiers cheering. Local farmers employing traditional farming methods: yoking of oxen, threshing, winnowing corn ...
Firing practice by the Territorial Army at Limassol, Cyprus. Men rush to their posts, swing the gun round and fire off a few rounds. Another gun position, the gun is being operated by a remote control ...
Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in the Middle East, General Auchinleck, arrives at Nicosia Aerodrome, Cyprus. Plane landing, Hurricane escort. The General alights from the plane and is greeted by ...
Major General Ramsden watches infantry training near Lapithos, Cyprus. Two men carry a mobile field radio. Some shots taken at an observation post.
Hotchkiss gun training in Troodos, Cyprus. Cadets are instructed by a British sergeant-major. Cadets undergoing physical training. Bayonet drill and squad drill. Map reading instruction.
AYY 157/1. 3 Oct 1941. Shots taken en route with reinforcement convoy and the first sights of Gibraltar. Troops sunbathing and playing "housie housie". Spanish frontier scenes. Police examining papers ...
Australian troops and nurses arrive by hospital ship at Singapore. Medical stores are unloaded and crates of Canadian Ford equipment, addressed to the Minister of Supplies, Singapore. The men and nurses ...
Demonstration at Kabrit, Suez for General Auchinleck of SAS parachutists jumping from a Bristol Bombay aircraft. Cameraman is inside the aircraft.
Bren carriers manned by Indian troops moving up to the front in Libya. They crash through the barbed wire under shell fire and are followed by the infantry. A platoon of a "famous Indian regiment" led ...
AYY 173/1. 8 Oct. 1941 ca. Major General Keith Simmons addresses a gathering of officers. A Bren carrier moves along the road and turns into a ditch. Royal Engineers receiving blackboard instruction on ...
General views of Gondar, Ethiopia, including the fort with prisoners and Ras Seyoum's castle. Lieutenant-General Wetherall, Acting GOC East Africa with Major General Foulkes, GOC 12th African Division, ...
Abandoned German tanks near Gambut, Libya. Italian prisoners working in Tobruk. Convoy going out to round up remaining pockets of Germans and Italians in Gambut area. Germans being captured and taken ...
Pan American flying boat "Anzac Clipper" escorted by Brewster Buffaloes lands on the water at Singapore Civil Airport and taxies away. Alfred and Lady Diana Duff Cooper leave the plane, followed by Mr ...
Netherlands East Indies Air Force at Singapore, flying and landing. They are welcomed by Air Vice-Marshal Pulford and inspected by Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham. The aircraft are Lockheed ...
Australian Red Cross ambulance with bullet holes, which drove across Kota Baru and Alor Star aerodromes rescuing people from Japanese machine gun fire and bombing. Ambulance driver.
Three Dogras of ...
25 pounders going forward along flooded road in Malaya. Troops advancing through rubber plantation. Refugees from Penang arrive at Ipoh railway station and receive food and drink from mobile canteen.
AYY 191/1. 19 Dec. 1941. Indian infantry enter the town after it has been captured from the Axis powers. German and Italian signs including "Long Live the Duce". Wrecked aircraft after the battle on ...
Sequence of shots in connection with the fall of Bardia, Libya.
Indian Labour Corps repairing road. Signallers repairing telephone on the road from Mersa Matruh to Sidi ...
Shots taken around Sollum and Sidi Barrani before the fall of Bardia. Sorting captured Italian rifles and clothing, shells and cartridge boxes. Military Police on battlefield near Divisional Headquarters ...
Leslie Howard explains to three Dominion soldiers why the Empire is at war.
The soldiers - from Australia, Canada and New Zealand - meet in Trafalgar Square, where a gushing lady commends them for "answering the ...
A survey of the equipment and training of the British Empire's armies, emphasising both the novelties of modern war (movement, mechanisation, mass numbers) and the traditional importance of the fighting man behind the ...
A view of the Empire's Navies, in peace and war, designed to emphasise their size and power, worldwide distribution, and fighting character (in explicit contrast to Axis navies).
An interesting attempt is made to ...
A survey of the equipment and brief but already glorious history of the RAF, including the contributions of the Air Forces of the Empire.
WW1 and inter-war film shows glimpses of Sopwith Camels, SE5s, Bristols, the ...
A compilation of film of factory production of war material in Britain and throughout the Empire.
A minimal degree of continuity is provided by film of King George VI visiting various factories; also much use is made ...
Kenya's first two years of war.
Opens with establishing shots - Mount Kenya, wild-life, black schoolchildren, white settlers; maps and headlines tell of Italian invasion of Abyssinia, outbreak of war. Men ...
The story of the liberation of Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia) after its invasion by Mussolini's Italian forces. Covers events from the formation of the Patriot Army which helped the British Army to drive out the Italians, ...
A brief look at an Indian Army Regiment (15th Punjab).
Material includes reveill; arms drill; bayonet practice; signals training (morse by flag, heliograph, shutter etc.); medical care; post office; pay; ...
A tribute to the Indian troops who had fought in the Libyan campaign.
Over film of Indian troops marching near Pyramids, commentator speaks of Indians serving in many areas overseas but especially in Libya: this ...
The work and training of the (Royal Bombay) Sappers and Miners; film stresses the military importance of their work as the "lifeline of the army" and the value to the men of their acquired skills once the war is over ...
A survey of the involvement of India's Home Front in the war effort.
An opening sequence of blackout, ARP practice and maps showing India's far-flung strategic frontiers (Egypt to Singapore) suggests the sort of ...
German feature film, anti-British propaganda about Britain's participation in the Boer War, portraying Cecil Rhodes, Joseph Chamberlain and Dr Jameson as prominent British villains. Kruger is shown having an audience with a whisky-swilling Queen ...
Amateur film shot at request of Mrs Daphne Goldney, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel James Goldney of 2nd/4th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army, by local Indian photographic company records voluntary work done by British wives in ...
I. "Conference on Freedom." At the second Inter-Allied meeting held at St James Palace, chairman Eden introduces Maisky representing the new ally, the USSR. The Russian ambassador speaks.
II. "Liverpool holds tank week parade." Covenanters and ...
I. "Britain and Soviet meet in Iran." Indian troops having entered Iran north of Baghdad pass through Kermanshah before meeting Soviet troops near Kazvin. Russian officer fires Very light now that Allied front stretches from Arctic to Libya. All is ...
Laurence Olivier reads extracts from patriotic and inspirational prose and poetry against an illustrative montage of film.
Camden's "Britannia" (title page) against views of British countryside - Milton's " ...
