INDIAN TROOPS IN THE MARETH LINE [Allocated Title]

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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.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1943-04-01
  • Production Country: GB
  • 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)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 481 ft; Running time: 5 mins
  • Notes:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AYY 383

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