AYY 187/1. 30 Jan. 1942. Visit of Apostolic Delegate Archbishop Gustavus Testa and First Secretary Monsignor Charles Perico to captured German Catholic clergy and German and Italian prisoners at Helwan ...
AYY 190/1. 19 January 1942. Officers of the 76th Anti-tank regiment, 1st Armoured Division discussing operations, north of Wadi Faragh. Armoured car at an observation post overlooking "Rommel's Ridge". ...
Ski training at Les Cedares, Lebanon. Skiing troops. Indian Mule Corps and their bagpipe band on the march and in mountain passes.
Notes
Query les Cedares (Les Cdres ?)
A Physical Training course at St Andrews Barracks, Malta, during a lull in enemy activity. Boxing and basketball. Instruction in unarmed combat.
Repairing motorcycles at the RAOC workshops. Men ...
Repairing motorcycles at the RAOC workshops. Men working a circular saw in carpenters shop.
British and Maltese children take lessons together at the school at St Andrews Barracks with English and ...
Soldiers and sailors convalescing from bomb wounds at the Convalescent Depot at St Georges in Malta. Playing quoits, gardening, bathing in St George's Bay.
Two platoons of the 2nd Battalion Queen's ...
Free boxing fair and fun fair at St Elmo, Lower Valletta, run by the army for the services and also open to civilians. Bomb damage visible in the hall, the largest hall in Europe. Soldiers and civilians ...
First official public function attended by Governor Lord Gort and Malta's first wartime investiture, held at Castille Square, Valletta. Fifty awards made to men (and one woman) of all three services and ...
HMS Welshman brings supplies to Malta, the ship is unloaded of oil, chilled meat and ammunition.
Malta Home Guard on parade, inspected by Brigadier Beckett, CRA at St Peter's Square, Hamrun. Four ...
The work of a Victory Kitchen, a government relief scheme. Vegetables and fruit are brought to Pitkali market by farmers then bought in bulk by a representative of the Communal Feeding Department. Carts ...
AYY 193/1. 24-25 Feb and 2-12 March. Men on non-urgent work take cover in rock shelters when public sirens are sounded but the remainder work on until the Red Flag is hoisted on the Palace Tower, Fort St ...
The Chief Censor Captain Stafford and Lieutenant Edwards censoring mail. Cutting a sentence out of a letter and stamping it with the censor's stamp. Two men writing letters in the courtyard of the ...
