BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

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 ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Major General Ramsden watches infantry training near Lapithos, Cyprus. Two men carry a mobile field radio. Some shots taken at an observation post.

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

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.

... 1942. Visit of Mr R G Casey, representative of the British War Cabinet in the Middle East and ... from the preceding cuts to show Gibraltar at war. It was never finished. Includes shot ... a feature film on Gibraltar during the war, which was in fact never made ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

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 ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Demonstration at Kabrit, Suez for General Auchinleck of SAS parachutists jumping from a Bristol Bombay aircraft. Cameraman is inside the aircraft.

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

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 ...

... arriving by Liberator and welcomed by Air Vice Marshal Pullford, General Percival, Major General Keith Simmons and others. War Savings hoarding with Chinese lettering. Return of Harriman Mission from Moscow with Lord Beaverbrook. Britain to supply Russia ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

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, ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

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 ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

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 ...

... aircraft are Lockheed Hudsons and Glen Martins. "Bombing-up" exercise.

Notes

Film sent by the Services Public Relations Officer, Singapore, to the War Office on 25 November 1941. They were devloped in Australia and returned to Singapore.