Title:MINES; BATTLE FOR GABÈS GAP [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 386/5
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Indian sappers and miners detect and clear mines left by the retreating Germans on the road beyond Gabès. The Fourth Indian Division Field Artillery in an attack on Mount Romana, an enemy position.
Description: Signs on the roads near Gabès. An artillery barrage at night. The sappers are beckoned by locals to clear their vegetable gardens and cornfields of mines. The jemadar in charge locates and removes a mine. 25 pounders in action. Prisoners. Indians in Bren gun carriers moving up. Large numbers of prisoners (mainly Italian) pouring in. Tanks and guns going into action. Tanks cutting through a cornfield.
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)
Italian Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Gabès, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
Prisoners of War, North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
