Title:PRIME MINISTER IN THE ALAMEIN LINE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 246/1
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Winston Churchill and senior staff at Alamein.
Description: Churchill arrives at Burg el Arab aerodrome and motors forward with General Claude Auchinleck. He meets various South Africans. He visits the 9th Australian Division in the Alamein Box where he meets Lieutenant-General Morshead. He inspects a 4.5-inch gun manned by a crew from the 27th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery. He inspects parades representing all units of the South African forces and also the Australian 9th Division. Churchill then attends a conference at the HQ of the 8th Army with General Auchinleck, and meets staff. Also present are Lieutenant-General Ramsden, Lieutenant-General Alan Brooke, Major General Dorman-Smith, Lieutenant-General Gott and Air Marshal Tedder.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Graham, E A (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person)
Auchinleck, Claude John Eyre (person)
Brooke, Alan Francis (person)
Dorman-Smith, Eric Edward (person)
Gott, William Henry Ewart (person)
Tedder, Arthur William (person)
Morshead, Leslie James (person)
Ramsden, William Havelock (person)
Australian Army, 9th Australian Division (regiment/service)
South African Army (regiment/service)
British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Burg-el-Arab, Egypt (geography)
El Alamein, Egypt (geography)
El Alamein 1942, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
