GENERAL ALEXANDER, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, SPENDS CHRISTMAS IN THE DESERT [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: GENERAL ALEXANDER, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, SPENDS CHRISTMAS IN THE DESERT [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: AYY 307-2
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: General H Alexander in Libya, Christmas 1942.
  • Description: General Alexander arrives at Marble Arch aerodrome in a Lockheed Hudson and is met by Captain C Yates, Camp Commandant. He unloads his Christmas stores from the plane, including a turkey. The driver loads the stores into the car. A signboard reading C in C Mess. Goods being unloaded. Close-up of turkeys. General Alexander talks to the American generals who have arrived to inspect tanks. They are Lieutenant-General J L Devers, Colonel W T Sexton, Major-General E H Brooks, Brigadier General G M Barnes and Brigadier-General W B Palmer. General Alexander talking to Lieutenant-General Devers. The Reverend R H Royle of the Eighth Army at a Christmas Day service. Men with their hands behind their backs listening to the service. A Bren gun in the foreground. Men singing hymns.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1942-12-24
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company) Jordan, William 'Billy'1918-03-272005 (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Alexander, Harold (1st Earl Alexander of Tunis) (person) Devers, Jacob Loucks (person) Custance, Edward Cecil Neville (person) Royle, Ronald Harold (person) British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Marble Arch, 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: 300 ft (ca); Running time: 3 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AYY 307-2

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