Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The Greek Special Forces Unit the Sacred Band (also referred to as the Sacred Company) at Ksar Rhilane (Qasr Ghilan), Tunisia, is visited by General Leclerc.
Description: Two camouflaged jeeps drive up. The driver and section officer remove the camouflage. A soldier tests a gun. The section officer puts on a "battle bowler" (tin hat) and takes out a map and studies it. He takes out binoculars and points. Close-up of Section Officer Lieutenant-Colonel Kalinsky Andrews making a fire, blowing on it and starting to cook. The officer and a Greek soldier eating. Mess tins and food being eaten. The Greek Commanding Officer Colonel Tsigantes drinking coffee with British Liaison Officers and officers of General Giraud. The Colonel sitting on his jeep and giving instructions to his men before starting off on patrol. He places a monocle in his eye and studies the map. He drives off in the first of a party of jeeps driving off to patrol. Jeeps going through rough country. The colonel gives a signal and the jeeps go right. Jeeps coming towards the camera. On return from the patrol the Colonel gets out of the jeep and walks off. The Colonel with Major Thesiger, a British Liaison Officer wearing Arab headdress, who is making notes. The Colonel places the monocle in his eye and observes. The Greek Commanding Officer is visited by General Leclerc. The General is wearing the badge of the Sacred Company, given to him by Colonel Tsigantes. The General departs in a jeep. A burnt out German Armoured Fighting Vehicle behind the jeep. A Greek soldier inspects another damaged German AFV. Two soldiers walking to an AFV near a jeep. Two Greek Second-Lieutenants talking. Visible on their right breast pockets is the badge of the Sacred Company. Close-up of the badge. A bearded Second-Lieutenant wearing the badge and paratroop sign.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Deeming, E A (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Leclerc, Philippe (person)
Thesiger, Wilfred Patrick (person)
Tsigantes, Christodoulos (person)
Greek Army, Sacred Band (regiment/service)
Keywords: Qasr Ghilan, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
