Title:SEARCH OF SHOP, HOUSE AND GROUNDS IN BASRA, 9 OCTOBER 2004 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 42
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Acting on intelligence, members of 1st Battalion the Cheshire Regiment (1 CHESHIRE) conduct a daytime search in Basra City.
Description: Street patrol by 1 CHESHIRE in Basra; several Snatch Land Rovers are parked at the side of the road as a group of soldiers gather. Local people stand nearby (including some very friendly young girls). Helicopter flies overhead: children cheer. Soldiers search with shovels on rubble-strewn roadside (searches for possible hidden guns). Local woman shopkeeper and a group of children watch. Grounds of a house are searched thoroughly; metal detector is used. Soldiers talk to local man in English. Ladder is placed against the wall of a house and soldiers climb up on the roof; others go into the shop and conduct a search (the interior is nearly derelict: rough shelves with basic goods, and poor interior lighting - torches are used). In the shop, an AK47 or derivative is discovered wrapped in plastic, along with a small number of shells; a personal weapon, so no action is taken. Dusk begins to fall towards the end of the tape
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 42
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2004-10-09
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Cheshire Regiment, 1st Battalion (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: DVCam
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 40; Running time: 20 mins
