Title:ROUMANA RIDGE AND WADI AKARIT [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 386/3/1
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Prisoners at Wadi Akirit, Tunisia.
Description: 6 April. Artillery barrage on the Wadi Akarit. Hundreds of enemy prisoners on the march to be interrogated.
7 April. Prisoners arriving by the hundred to be interrogated, some without trousers and boots. View from Roumana Ridge of guns, tanks and vehicles moving up along the tracks. Troops of the 5th Cameronians having a meal and a rest. German dead laying around the ridge. Close-up of a young German soldier. Prisoners in the valley below Roumana Ridge. Dead German soldiers laying with their machine guns. A tank and vehicle passing through Wadi Akarit.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Taylor, A A (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 5th Battalion (regiment/service)
Italian Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Wadi Akarit, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
Prisoners of War, North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
