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Title:NAVY LANDING SUPPLIES ON SHORE EAST OF MERSA MATRUH [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 272/11
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Two landing craft tank (LCT 115 and LCT 138) moor on the beach at Mersa Matruh; personnel unload oil, petrol and stores from them into army trucks.
Description:
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Hopkinson, Peter Richard Gunton1920-06-272007-06-28Hopkinson started him career in the film industry at the age of 16 as a clapper boy at Ealing Studios, then working at Denham Studios. He volunteered for overseas service in 1941and was an AFPU photographer and informant in the "Wartime Filming" interview project. He was sent to Persia initially to make a film about getting supplies through to Russia and made many other films in the Western Desert. He joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). His career after the war was mainly filming documentaries and his last documentary was Whickers War, made in 2004. (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Royal Navy (regiment/service)
Keywords: Mersa Matruh, Egypt (geography)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)