GENERAL MONTGOMERY INSPECTING TROOPS AND AMBULANCES MOVING UP [Allocated Title]

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  • 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.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1943-04-08
  • Production Country: GB
  • 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)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 287 ft; Running time: 3 mins
  • Notes:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AYY 388/3/1

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