Title:GENERAL MONTGOMERY INSPECTING TROOPS AND AMBULANCES MOVING UP [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 388/3/1
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The Commander-in-Chief with troops near the Gabès Gap, Tunisia. Transport and ambulances moving up while prisoners are brought back.
Description: General Montgomery standing by a Shell petrol station. Montgomery holding flowers. He shakes hands with officers. Pipers on parade playing bagpipes. General Montgomery inspects the men on parade. Panning shot of a crowd watching. Close-up of General Montgomery entering his car and salutes. Panning shot over a trench to lorries by the roadside. Men moving forwards. Men at a gun. Lorries and ambulances on the road below. Wounded men seated in a group. Soldiers sorting out belongings. Close-up of men lined up. Panning shot over prisoners seated on the ground. A Sherman tank on the move. A soldier leading a line of prisoners. Prisoners carrying a stretcher. Lorries moving in the background.
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: Montgomery, Bernard Law (person)
British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: Gabès, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
