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Title:BRITISH AND FRENCH TROOPS REPAIR TRACK NEAR AIN HALLOUF [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 467/4
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Men of the 150th Railway Construction Company working with French troops of the 54th [Compaine] SCF on the railway line at Ain Hallouf. Shots for Pinewood use.
Description: British troops putting down sleepers. Men carry a length of track and place it on the sleepers. French troops bring up sleepers from a pile and lay them, with a Light Anti-Aircraft gun in the foreground. French troops putting down sleepers. French troops lift up a piece of track onto their shoulders, walk towards the camera and lay the piece of track on sleepers. British and French troops working together. British and French officers chatting together. British and French troops resting, talking and offering each other cigarettes. Another group of French and British troops fraternising. French troops laying tracks down on a railway bridge near Pont du Fahs. Men doing various jobs on the bridge. View from the line of men working.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Meyer (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers, 150th Railway Construction Company [NEW TERM] (regiment/service)
French Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Ain Hallouf, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)