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Title:INDIAN TROOPS IN THE MARETH LINE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 383
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Indian sappers and miners clearing a pass in the mountains south west of the Mareth Line for the advance of the Fourth Indian Division. Cave dwellers in the Matmata mountains.
Description: The pass in the distance with sappers blasting a gap in the foreground. Indian soldiers talking to Troglodytes near one of their caves. Women drawing water from a well. Division transport passing through the village of Beni Zeltene, thirty miles west of Gabès. The Eighth Army moving forwards through Gabès.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Ingram, G E (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Indian Army, 4th Indian Division (regiment/service)
Indian Army, Indian Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Gabès, Tunisia (geography)
Beni Zeltene, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)