POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONSGB

Visit of Commander-in-Chief, Italian Naval Forces to Malta, July 1955.

(Part 1) Italian flagship Luigi di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi fires salute as Vice-Admiral Vittorio De Pace (C-in-C) ...

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Summary: see Related Items for linked collection of papers photos and paintings. According to daughter's letter, her mother saw the film at The Plaza in Newcastle and it was after the war's end, as her father appears with Sergeant's stripes.

... those chins up and God bless': filmed messages home from service personnel in the Far East during the Second World War (Paul Sargent, IWM Review No. 7 November 1992) Interviews of production personnel held by Sound Archive, refs: 12357/2; 12356/2; 12358 ...

... Army Film Centre, CB 59. Only internal clue to production date is remark "You should get these things by Christmas", implying late 1945. For history of CALLING BLIGHTY series see article by Paul Sargent in IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM REVIEW No. 7, pp 23-33.

... , 'We are the Leicester Boys'.

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Summary: 'We are the Leicester Boys' is a marching song from the First World War often associated with the 4th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment. There are several known variations on the lyrics, but the ...

... raw footage held as ABY 122 and 124. See related items.

This film appears in an edited form in the Ministry of Information's Middle Eastern newsreel 'World Pictorial News' (formerly 'War Pictorial News'), also held by the IWM. See related items.

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Canadian airmen of RCAF 435 Squadon deliver rice to Burmese civilians via the Civil Affairs Service (CAS).

A Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) ...

ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

Canadian airmen of RCAF 435 Squadron deliver rice to Burmese civilians via the Civil Affairs Service (CAS).

A Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

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 " ...

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DOCUMENTARY. "Fake newsfilm" of a Boer war skirmish.

A number of Boer volunteers direct rifle fire and cannon fire at the kilted Highland regiment advancing towards them. The Highlanders overrun the battery and put the Boers to flight (81 ft). ...

INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIndia

After 82nd West African Division ...

BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WARGB

The arrival of General von Arnim at Maison Blanche aerodrome on his way to internment.

Von Arnim arrives at the airport and is escorted to a waiting staff car. Von Arnim ...