Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Prisoners in Sicily and other scenes.
Description: 3000 Italian prisoners being marched along the road and through the shattered road block at Cassibile village, headed by Italian sailors captured at Syracuse. A soldier standing in the back of a lorry with a gun. Close up of prisoners on the move. A farmer and his family welcoming troops on his farm. Troops playing with the farmer’s grandson. The farmer shaking hands with a soldier. Soldier sharing cigarettes with the farmer.
General Montgomery conferring with senior officers in an orchard at 13 Corps Syracuse. A soldier hands tea to an officer. General Montgomery getting into his car. The car moves away.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Hopkinson, Peter Richard Gunton1920-06-272007-06-28Hopkinson started him career in the film industry at the age of 16 as a clapper boy at Ealing Studios, then working at Denham Studios. He volunteered for overseas service in 1941and was an AFPU photographer and informant in the "Wartime Filming" interview project. He was sent to Persia initially to make a film about getting supplies through to Russia and made many other films in the Western Desert. He joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). His career after the war was mainly filming documentaries and his last documentary was Whickers War, made in 2004. (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Montgomery, Bernard Law (person)
British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
British Army, XIII Corps (regiment/service)
Italian Army (regiment/service)
Italian Navy (regiment/service)
