Title:EMBARKATION OF INVASION TROOPS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 505/1/5
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Troops preparing to leave Port Said for the invasion of Sicily.
Description: Troops arrive in lorries near the beach. The men are given a cup of tea each. Close up of tea being dished out. A group of men standing drinking tea and smoking. Men embarking on a lighter. Close up of men waving at the camera. Men embarking on Z craft. Leaving the beach on the Z craft. The craft approaching «HMT Orontes». Slow pan of men climbing up the gangway of the ship.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:AYY 505/1/5
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1943-06-30
Production Country: GB
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Baker, Robert Sidney1916-10-272009-09-30 (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, HMT ORONTES, troopship (regiment/service)
Keywords: Port Said, Egypt (geography)
Operation Husky, Allied Invasion of Sicily 1943, Italy, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1943-1944 (theme)
Italy 1939-1945 (theme)
