Title:DRIVING THE AXIS OUT OF NORTH AFRICA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 449/7
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: A Generals' conference near Hammamet. Prisoners at a POW camp.
Description: Brigadier Gascoigne, General Horrocks, General Keightley and Brigadier Foster conferring. Brigadier Shoosmith, General Hawkesworth and Brigadier T Ivor-Moore. A signpost for Grombalia. Prisoners walking and riding back. A lorry load of prisoners singing the Italian version of the Woodpecker's Song. A POW post a few miles behind the front. A panning shot of the POW camp and prisoners. 200 German prisoners being led into the camp. The crossroads near Hammamet blocked with prisoners and vehicles.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
West, J A (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Horrocks, Brian Gwynne (person)
Keightley, Charles Frederic (person)
Gascoigne, Julian Alvery (person)
Hawkesworth, John Ledlie Inglis (person)
Shoosmith, Richard Newton (person)
Ivor-Moore, Thomas (person)
British Army, First Army (regiment/service)
Italian Army (regiment/service)
German Army (Third Reich) (regiment/service)
Keywords: Hammamet, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
Prisoners of War, North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
