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Title:COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF GENERAL ALEXANDER DECORATES BIR HACHEIM HEROES [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 262/4
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: General Alexander presents gallantry medals to fifteen members of the Free French at Almaza, Egypt.
Description: The Fighting Frenchmen stand easy while they wait for General Alexander to arrive. The investiture takes place. March past with General Alexander taking the salute. General Alexander talking to General Catroux.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Morris, R H (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Alexander, Harold (1st Earl Alexander of Tunis) (person)
Catroux, Georges (person)
De Larminat, Edgard (person)
Free French Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Almaza, Egypt (geography)
El Alamein 1942, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)