Yorkshire Hussars in Kokkinotrimithia, Cyprus, training on new A10, A13 and Valentine tanks. Plane instruction course.

Notes

Dope sheet AYY 215/4.

April 1942. Turkish Military Mission in the grounds of General Auchinleck's home in Cairo. The members are General Sefik Cakmak, Chief of Air Staff; Lieutenant-Colonel Pahsin Yazici, Major Calal Alcoc, ...

Poles picking up their kits as they leave Tehran. They clamber up into the lorry. Polish cadets training, "eyes right" into camera then "eyes front". Polish NCO shouting the drill orders. The lorries ...

Ships chartered by the Red Cross to alleviate starvation in Greece. Flour arriving by lorry and being loaded onto Swedish Red Cross ship Halleren. Swedish flag on ship. The First Officer supervising ...

HRH inspects Polish civilians at the Polish camp at Tehran.

HRH in a group with the British Minister.

He takes the salute of the Persian army guard of honour and inspects the guard.

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I. His Excellency Governor Wooley in his new Governors Service Uniform inspecting a company of infantry of the Cyprus Volunteer Force at Nicosia. Speech.

II. HRH The Duke of Gloucester on tour. HRH ...

20-27 May 1942. HRH visiting ruins at Baalbek. He is escorted by the Tcherkess Guard. HRH in Damascus. Shots taken from the car driving the Duke to La Residence, home of General Catroux. The Duke at the ...

Crashed Stuka plane with pilot's body burning under fuselage. Troops from the 8th Indian Brigade advance in the background with a Bren carrier. Close up of burning body.

Italian POW being escorted ...

ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) recruits at a camp in Sarafand, Palestine. The women are from Palestine, Yemen, Transjordan, India and there are also Jewish exiles from Europe. The staff are mainly ...

Women's Auxiliary Army Services (South African) at 19th Base General Hospital, Geneifa, Egypt.

Doctor and nurse in operating theatre. Patient being given oxygen. Wounded ...

Major General Pienaar at the Headquarters of the 1st South African Division at Gazala, Libya, giving an interview to war correspondents. They include Alan Moorhead of the Daily Express, Alex Clifford of ...

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 ...