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Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The Australian 9th Division embark at Suez for an unknown destination along with Australian nursing sisters and VAD nurses.
Description: Men boarding lighters. One of the men does a song and dance routine on the roof of the bridge on the way to the «RMS Queen Mary». The men transferring from tugs to the «RMS Queen Mary». The Embarkation Staff Officer sticks berthing cards in the men's hats as they board. Lines of men going up the gangway. Stacks of kitbags. Baggage parties manhandling the kit on board. Lorries being taken on board. Nurses.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Groom, G (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Australian Army, 9th Australian Division (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, QUEEN MARY (HMS), battlecruiser (regiment/service)
Keywords: Suez, Egypt (geography)
Western Desert 1940-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)