Title:VETERANS AT OOSTERBEEK MILITARY CEMETERY, ARNHEM, THE NETHERLANDS (TAPE 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFK 243
Other titles:BRITISH FORCES GERMANY COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Coverage of the funeral of Ernest Ager and Douglas Lowry of the King's Own Royal Border Regiment, killed during Operation Market Garden in 1944, whose bodies had only recently been discovered.
Description: Views from a car driving up to the cemetery. The two coffins, covered with the Union Flag and a flag of a yellow dragon on a green field (the latter representing an Imperial Chinese Dragon standard captured at Nanking in China during the Opium Wars of 1840-42). The berets of the two men are on top of the coffins. Veteran line up, ready to march into the cemetery. the pallbearers (all veterans) carry the coffins to the gravesides. The Last Post is played, wreaths are laid and the coffins are lowered into the ground.
Alternative Title:BRITISH FORCES GERMANY COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
