HMS Welshman brings supplies to Malta, the ship is unloaded of oil, chilled meat and ammunition.
Malta Home Guard on parade, inspected by Brigadier Beckett, CRA at St Peter's Square, Hamrun. Four ...
HMS Welshman brings supplies to Malta, the ship is unloaded of oil, chilled meat and ammunition.
Malta Home Guard on parade, inspected by Brigadier Beckett, CRA at St Peter's Square, Hamrun. Four ...
The work of a Victory Kitchen, a government relief scheme. Vegetables and fruit are brought to Pitkali market by farmers then bought in bulk by a representative of the Communal Feeding Department. Carts ...
AYY 193/1. 24-25 Feb and 2-12 March. Men on non-urgent work take cover in rock shelters when public sirens are sounded but the remainder work on until the Red Flag is hoisted on the Palace Tower, Fort St ...
The Chief Censor Captain Stafford and Lieutenant Edwards censoring mail. Cutting a sentence out of a letter and stamping it with the censor's stamp. Two men writing letters in the courtyard of the ...
Ships entering the Grand Harbour are the Rochester Castle, Melbourne Star and Port Chalmers. Cheering men from the Royal Malta Artillery watch. The damaged bows of the Brisbane Star. The destroyer G77 ( ...
The crew visit the 23rd Battery of the 11th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Malta Artillery at San Pietra. They look at one of the 4.5 inch guns and chat with the Maltese gunners. At Benghaisa they ...
The GOC Major General Scobie visits the Command Fair to see a boxing match in aid of the Malta Convoy Fund. He leaves the fair accompanied by Brigadier de la Bere and Major Crossless.
Football ...
Demonstrations by assault party with bayonets and hand grenades at Ghajn Tuffieha Bay, Malta. Bren gun bullets hitting the water.
Rehearsed and actual ceremony of the presentation of the George Cross by Lord Gort at a parade in the presence of local and military VIPs in Palace Square.
The Guard of ...
Workers at Senglea waterfront, repairing the Brisbane Star. Bomb-damaged bastion of Cospicus. Workers looking at the Cross, which is guarded by the Dockyard Police and Royal Marines at Hammerton Wharf ...
The George Cross exhibited at Zebbug.
A Spitfire. Barrage of HAA in the sky. Parachute coming down. Ju 88s dipping to bomb Luqa. Two submarines at Manoel: the submarines' smoke screen. A Ju 88 on ...
RAF protection for two convoys. Spitfires and Beaufighters take off. Unloading from ships SS Troilus and SS Orari. A smoke screen covers Grand Harbour and the dockyard during Alerts. The army and Royal ...