Title:50TH ANNIVERSARY PARADE FOR THE QUEEN'S GURKHA SIGNALS REGIMENT, MAUDE HOUSE, BAGHDAD, 24 SEPTEMBER 2004 (TAPE 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 38
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: A celebratory parade at Maude House, Baghdad, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Queens Gurkha Signals (QGS) being awarded their cap badge. The parade mirrored the original formation parade, held fifty years earlier in Kuala Lumpur.
Description: Footage (tapes one and two):
Piper plays at Parade, pans around to show troops on parade
General McColl inspects and talks to Gurkhas on parade
General McColl talks to members of Global Security, previously members of QGS.
Major Ade Clewlow addresses the parade
Cake is marched on & General McColl cuts the cake
General McColl makes a speech about the Gurkhas and their value to the armed forces
Piper plays "Largo" from Dvorak’s Symphony No 9 (“From the New World”)
Group photograph
Interview Major Ade Clewlow explaining about anniversary and parade
Interview with Lance Corporal Shimsen
Interview with Lance Corporal Saggar
ENDS
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 38
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2004-09-24
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Queen's Gurkha Signals (regiment/service)
Keywords: Baghdad, 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: DVCam
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 40
