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 ...

I. 21 December. Opening with shots of African sappers unloading folding boats from a truck, the film shows the men working the winch and then carrying road bearers past the camera. The camera introduces ...

Rangoon 25 January 1942. Views of a busy street with several civilians running (hurrying for shelter after an air raid alarm was sounded, according to the cameraman's Dope Sheet). View across the Hlaing river. View of the Grand Pagoda. Heavily ...

Burma, 30 January 1942. American Volunteer Group (AVG), Two Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk fighter aircraft warming up for take-off on a dusty airstrip. Panning shot across airstrip. Tomahawk aircraft taking off. Another Tomahawk aircraft taxiing to take-off, ...

Burma, late January-early February 1942. Shots of parts of a crashed Japanese bomber. Four civilians carrying part of the crashed aircraft wing. Group of civilians crowded around the dead body of a Japanese airman. The body lies partially clothed on ...

Rangoon docks, Burma 4 February 1942. View over dock area. Large number of Indian troops disembarking from a troop ship and marching along the docks. View over the harbour. Civilians working past a British soldier in full kit wearing a pith helmet. ...

Government House, Rangoon, Burma 3 February 1942. Brief shot of a Burmese policeman standing guard in the grounds. Sustained view of Government House. Shot of Union Jack flag. Panning shot over the Shwe Dragon Pagoda and over the city of Rangoon. The ...