CHRISTMAS SERVICE, TRIPOLITANIA, LIBYA [Allocated Title]

Title: CHRISTMAS SERVICE, TRIPOLITANIA, LIBYA [Allocated Title]
Film Number: AYY 310/1
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.
Featured Period: 1939-1945
Production Date: 1942-12-25
Production Country: GB
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)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 200 ft (ca); Running time: 2 mins
Notes: Technical: all three parts of AYY 310 are held on the same reel.
Link to IWM Collections page:
AYY 310/1
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