YOUNG OFFICER BATCH MAY 80 [Main Title]

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  • Title: YOUNG OFFICER BATCH MAY 80 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: BFM 228
  • Other titles: COLLECTION OF TAPES FROM ROYAL MARINES, LYMPSTONE [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Montage of activities by the batch of Royal Marines Young Officers who graduated in May 1980.
  • Description: Scenes of the Commando assault course are followed by exercise footage, including Exercise First Look (small scale riot training), Exercise Swiftfoot on Salisbury Plain (a larger scale riot control exercise featuring a Saracen armoured car), field firings, and Exercise Channel Fever (involving airlifts and searching of rural area).
  • Alternative Title: COLLECTION OF TAPES FROM ROYAL MARINES, LYMPSTONE [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: BFM 228
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM
  • Featured Period: 2001-2025
  • Production Date: 1980-05
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Commando Training Centre Royal Marines (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Marines (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, Lympstone, Devon, England, UK (geography) Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, UK (geography) Royal Marines (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: U-matic Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Tape length: 30; Running time: 11 mins
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    BFM 228

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