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Title:VISIT OF KING FAISAL TO BRITISH EMBASSY, CAIRO [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 396/10/1
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The British Ambassador to Egypt hosts a reception and tea for the King of Iraq.
Description: King Faisal arriving at the Embassy by car. The group playing party games in the ballroom with General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson and Major Chapman Walker. General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson playing table tennis. Playing badminton in the ballroom. Sir Miles and Lady Lampson with their son the Honourable Victor Lampson and King Faisal on the terrace of the Embassy. An Indian sentry at the Embassy.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Chown, L B T (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Feisal II, King of Iraq (person)
Lampson, Miles Wedderburn (person)
Lampson, Jacqueline Aldine Leslie (person)
Lampson, Victor Miles George Aldous (person)
Wilson, Henry Maitland 'Jumbo' (person)
Walker, H Chapman (person)
Keywords: Cairo, Egypt (geography)
North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)