Title:VISIT OF COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF MALTA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 386/2/3
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Lord Gort pays a surprise visit to the US II Corps Headquarters at Gafsa, Tunisia.
Description: Lord Gort leaving II Corps HQ with Chief of Staff Major General McCreery, General Patton and Major General Bradley of the US Army. Close-up of Lord Gort in conversation with General Patton. Officers from the Eighth Army HQ: Lieutenant-Colonel Baker, Major Hearne, Major Boyd, Gunner Gosling (driver) and Signalman Parlik (Chief Signal Officer Branch, Eighth Army). Close-up of officers and other ranks. Major-General Penny, Signal Officer in Chief, War Office with Colonel Fulley, Chief Signal Officer, 2nd Corps US Forces and Major Fitzgerald (Chief Signal Officer, Eighth Army). Close-up of Major-General Penny and other officers.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
French, Henry (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Vereker, John Standish Surtees Prendergast (6th Viscount Gort) (person)
McCreery, Richard Loudon (person)
Patton, George S. (person)
Bradley, Omar Nelson (person)
United States Army, II Corps (regiment/service)
British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Gafsa, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
