EL ALAMEIN UNDERGROUND ADVANCED DRESSING STATION [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: EL ALAMEIN UNDERGROUND ADVANCED DRESSING STATION [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: AYY 255/7
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Advanced Dressing Station twelve feet underground, half a mile from Alamein station.
  • Description: Ambulances arrive at the Dressing Station. Stretcher bearers carry in the injured. Inside, a medical officer (identified on the dope sheet as Captain E Hesselberg) examines a patient. A patient is given a blood transfusion. Red Cross flag with shell fire damage. Patients being booked in.
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: AYY 255/7
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1942-08-26
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Jordan, William 'Billy'1918-03-272005 (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: El Alamein, Egypt (geography) North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 404 ft; Running time: 5 mins
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    AYY 255/7

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