Edited report of 1st Battalion 7th Gurkha Rifles patrolling river by native motor launch, names and photographs of wanted terrorists in briefing room, briefing prior to Wessex helicopter dropping soldiers into jungle clearing, bringing in captured ...
Squadron Leader Keith Cawdron bids farewell to the villagers of Sindumin as his unit is moved to Labuan prior to return to England.
Squadron Leader Cawdron plays ball with the local children. A long boat arrives at ...
[Compilation tape.] 00.00 Calypso song on war in Anguilla. 03.35 Russian news report (in Russian). 10.28 Censorship Interview - Michael Barratt talks to Dr George Steiner (critic) and Charles Manowitz (producer) about ...
(Reel 1) After departing Little Aden from Salerno Camp (Coldstream Barracks), Hughes records northwards journey in protected convoy on road to Dhala in Land Rover with anti-roll bars and plated against land mines. Fair-haired guardsman is seventeen ...
Men of 42 Commando Royal Marines construct defensive positions in Kuwait in expectation of a possible Iraqi attack.
Men of 42 Commando have established a defensive perimeter in the wind-swept desert beyond the main ...
Men of 45 RM Commando are addressed by Major-General Tower before flying out of Khormaksar in RAF Hercules transports.
Royal Marines file past the camera carrying personal arms and kit. CU of General Tower as he ...
Dramatised recruitment film for prospective Royal Navy officers.
1. Prospective recruits (in civvies) are taken onboard HMS Dolphin; sequence focuses on one of the recruits, "Brendon" (a Welshman who gives us his ...
British television news report interviews Major Vivian Robinson of Second Battalion 6th Gurkha Rifles, presently countering Indonesians crossing into Borneo, and shows Wessex helicopter landing Gurkhas in jungle, patrol, radio communications, food, ...
7th Gurkha Rifles on parade, patrolling frontier with China, extended interview with bespectacled British officer, assault training, Tavolero Barracks, Gurkhas dancing and Gurkha soldier returning home to barracks to be greeted by wife and two ...
845 Squadron operates Wessex helicopters against Indonesian guerrillas in Brunei.
Aerial views from helicopter flying over the jungle. Cut to helicopter now landed by a river - supplies have been landed and are taken ...
An account of the contribution made by the Imperial Tobacco Company towards raising the living standards of many thousands of Africans in the Rhodesias and Nyasaland (now Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi).
Introduced as 'a story about the ...
The work of the British Red Cross at home and at its overseas branches in Hong Kong, Kenya and Uganda.
The violence against the British presence in Aden and the future of the South Arabian Federation. Llew Gardner spoke to the Secretary-General of the South Arabian League in Aden and Robert Kee spoke to Duncan Sandys and ...
The history of Aden and its importance now as a port and oil refinery. Intended for secondary schools.
DOCUMENTARY. A report on the political situation in Aden and the role of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Includes an interview with Lt. Col. Colin Campbell Mitchell.
Rediffusion logo (00:04). Opening ...
Unedited colour film of Royal Marine Commandos in four jeeps and two trucks on patrol in a rocky arid district surrounded by mountains.
Two Marines sit perched on a cliff while the camera pans towards the mountains ...
Reel of rushes of 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on patrol in Aden during the Emergency (with live sound during rough searching of Arab suspects), and of mute rushes of British soldiers on patrol, unarmed, in the peaceful British ...
British forces deliver supplies to inhabitants of Perim Island.
British Army unit in Bedford trucks, on training patrol in Western Aden Protectorate, takes time off to deliver Christmas gifts to the impoverished ...
News report on the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on security operations in the Crater district of Aden during the Aden Emergency.
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Titling includes "A BBC Television Film. Hanford. BBC. D.5607/5608. Hard News. ( ...
Lord Mountbatten visits Kuala Lumpur; Singapore, where he is seen with the Prime Minister (Lee Kuan Yew) and aboard a hovercraft; Borneo, where he inspects the Indonesian border installations; Bangkok; Hong Kong, where he sees the naval and RAF bases ...
Drama set in Kenya. Two American cowboys are recruited by a British rancher to help him in a project involving the capturing and taming of wild animals and by breeding new stock to provide a source of food. The object is to halt the ...
A look at modern life in several south African countries.
RAF publicity film and travelogue, ostensibly shot be a ground engineer, and amateur cine enthustiast, who also narrates.
A ground engineer with the Royal Air Force shows some pictures he "has taken recently". Ground ...
Four Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme winners from the Midlands joined six Gambians and journeyed 200 miles to explore ancient stone circles in the Gambian interior.
