Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: First of two films showing a Christmas service on the beach at Eighth Army HQ, Tripolitania, North Africa attended by General Montgomery.
Description: Lieutenant-General Montgomery and General Sir Harold Alexander with personnel from the Navy, Army and Air Force. The service is conducted by the Reverend R H Royle of Swindon with musical accompaniment by the RAF. Montgomery reads the lesson.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Windows, J C (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Cunningham, Andrew Browne (person)
Montgomery, Bernard Law (person)
Alexander, Harold (1st Earl Alexander of Tunis) (person)
Royle, Ronald Harold (person)
British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Royal Navy (regiment/service)
Keywords: Tripolitania, Libya (geography)
Western Desert 1940-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
