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Title:30 CORPS SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING AND REMEMBRANCE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 336/6/2
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Three films of General Montgomery holding a thanksgiving service after the capture of Tripoli.
Description: The padres in the foreground during the service. General Alexander and staff officers singing hymns. Montgomery takes the salute during a march past.
Troops arriving for the service. General Montgomery arrives. The padre reading the service. Montgomery takes the salute. Various units marching past. Wrecks in the harbour. Flags of various services. Montgomery leaving.
South African, New Zealand and British troops at the church service. A crowd watching. Scottish regiments and others on the march past.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Acland, A W (Production individual)
Morris, R H (Production individual)
Flack (Lieutenant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Montgomery, Bernard Law (person)
Alexander, Harold (1st Earl Alexander of Tunis) (person)
British Army, XXX Corps (regiment/service)
South African Army (regiment/service)
New Zealand Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Tripoli, Libya (geography)
Western Desert 1940-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)