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 ...
