Title:THE ROYAL RIFLE VOLUNTEERS IN IRAQ, JUNE 2005 (TAPE 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFA 2974
Other titles:HEADQUARTERS LAND COMMAND 2005 COLLECTION [Allocated Title]
Summary: Routine activities by members of the Royal Rifle Volunteers (RRV), a Territorial Army unit, at Divisional Headquarters in Basra.
Description: START 02:00:00 Bars and tone.
02:00:30 Private Chris Cowton (in a Liverpool FC shirt) works out in the gymnasium.
02:05:08 Interview with Private Peter Carlton (outside camp buildings). He is also seen writing a "bluey" letter outside his corrimec accommodation.
02:18:35 Lance Corporal Martin Clayton on night guard duty in the sangar at Divisional Headquarters (shot using image intensifier). He makes a radio check before drinking water.
02:22:47 Lance Corporal Clayton climbs into the and observation post and keeps watch with binoculars. He checks with the sentry in position and is later seen finishing duty.
02:25:40 Cutaway shots (image intensifier) of camp lights and ants inside the sangar.
02:26:31 (Daylight) Captain Steve Harley briefs troops before a range shoot in the desert.
02:28:03 Soldier on top cover of Snatch Land Rover with with instructor; the Land Rover drives off into the heat haze.
02:30:44 Burning wellheads at a nearby oil refinery (the troops have been warned not to shoot in the direction of the refinery).
02:31:12 Soldiers wait by Land Rovers ready for their turn on the range; some of them clean their SA80 rifles.
END 02:33:07
Alternative Title:HEADQUARTERS LAND COMMAND 2005 COLLECTION [Allocated Title]
Production Details: Headquarters Land Command (Production sponsor)
Headquarters Land Command Mobile News Team (Production company)
Capon, Kevin (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Rifle Volunteers, Roebuck Company (regiment/service)
Keywords: Basra, Iraq (geography)
Operation Telic, Iraq War 2003-2009 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: None
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: DVCPRO
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 33; Running time: 33 mins
