8 Mar. 1942. First stage of General Auchinleck's journey from Cairo to Baghdad. He boards a plane at Heliopolis Aerodrome. The plane stops at Lydda (near Jaffa) to refuel. On arrival at Baghdad he is met ...
Members of 606 Company the Cyprus Pioneer Corps (Alien Unit) in Famagusta.
Palestinian troops rushing out of billets on an alarm being given. Fixing bayonets. Troops ...
Cyprus Coastal Defence Battery practising Action Stations.
Telephone orderly receiving message at observation post from Naval Command that an unidentified ship is in the ...
13 April 1942. British prisoners of war returned from Italy recording a broadcast to their families at the 15th Scottish Hospital, Egypt. Captain Peter Haddon is in charge. The dialogue is radioed direct ...
Scenes in Andimeshk, Iran. US Dodge lorries handed over by US personnel to Soviet personnel, who drive them away.
Notes
Remarks: no dope sheet in file.
HRH emplanes at Heliopolis, Egypt, with his staff and arrives at Baghdad, Iraq. He inspects guard of honour. Shots of General Quinan (GOC 10th Army) and General Lane, AAQMG (Assistant Adjutant and ...
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 ...
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 ...
