Title:GORDON BROWN VISITS BRITISH FORCES IN BASRA, 9 DECEMBER 2007 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 1081
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Visit to troops by the Right Honourable Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister.
Description: I. Gordon Brown arrives at Divisional Headquarters where he meets officers and Army and civilian personnel; he also meets Australian and Danish troops. (Cameraman Ralph Merry takes still photographs.) Other services are also present.
II. Major General Graham Binns, commander of British forces in Iraq, calls the assembly to order, and Gordon Brown gives an address during which he thanks the personnel and announces the imminent handover of Basra to provincial Iraqi control (PIC).
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 1081
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2007-12-09
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Holmes, Andy (Corporal, RAF) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Brown, Gordon (person)
Binns, Graham John (person)
British Army (regiment/service)
Royal Navy (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Australian Army (regiment/service)
Danish Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: British Army post-2000 (theme)
Royal Air Force post-2000 (theme)
Royal Navy post-2000 (theme)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
