Tanks and troops at Port Tewfik, Egypt.

Anti-tank guns being towed away by trucks. Labourers at work on dockside. Valentine Mark III tanks running onto tank transporters ...

Movement of transport towards the fighting at the Battle of El Alamein.

Transport, anti-aircraft guns and tanks moving forwards towards El Alamein positions. Shelling of ...

I.The Duke of Gloucester visits Headquarters, 30 Corps, on the Alamein Line. He is greeted by Major General Ramsden, Corps Commander, and Major General Pienaar and Lieutenant-General Morshead, General ...

Attack against the enemy at El Ruweisat, south of the El Alamein Box.

Attack by 161 Brigade, 5th Indian Division and the 22nd and 23rd Armoured Brigades on El Ruweisat ...

I. 14 June. The Duke arrives in Bihar Province and is received by the Governor, His Excellency Sir Thomas Stewart.

II. 16 June. He visits British and Indian hospitals and also troops from Burma ...

Soldiers on a tank as it travels on a transporter.

(Reel 9) American tank crews attached to the 3rd County of London Yeomanry line up as the cook sounds the gong for lunch. The men sitting and ...

The Duke's tour of Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Aden.

HRH arrives at Heliopolis Airport in Cairo, takes the salute, inspects a guard of honour of the 4/7 Rajputs and says ...

Observation procedure preceding a long range gun attack.

Men from the 426th South Nottinghamshire (Hussars) Battery, Royal Horse Artillery firing a 5.5-inch gun. ...

The Punjab Premier visits troops.

Sikander Hayat Khan arrives at Eighth Army Tactical Headquarters in the Western Desert. He meets Lieutenant-General Ramsden and ...

Exercise at Mombasa, Kenya.

121 Force scale the cliff face, defended by the King's African Rifles. Lieutenant-Colonel M M Alston-Roberts-West is commanding the 2nd ...

Film of locations of the landings made on 5 May 1942 when the Royal Navy carrying the Commandos and the 29th Infantry Brigade landed at Courrier Bay and the landing point " ...

June 1942. Newspaper close-ups referring to the Hur "menace" in Sind, including reports of the derailment of the Lahore mail train. Desert and camel scenes. Two Hurs are arrested by police. An army ...