Title:BROTHER AND SISTER REUNITED IN IRAQ, NOVEMBER 2003 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 117
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2003 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Signalman John Mudie of 1st Battalion the Light Infantry is reunited with his sister WREN Rebecca Mudie ("Becky"), a steward on the Type 23 frigate HMS Norfolk, the Gulf guard ship.
Description: START 02:04:28 Bars and tone.
02:04:58 John Mudie departs from Basra Air Station car. Interior scenes
02:07:04 Cutaways of the journey to Kuwait.
02:07:43 HMS Norfolk alongside in Kuwait; exterior and interior shots.
02:08:02 Becky Mudie at work (slicing lemons) as she waits for her brother. Further cutaway shots of HMS Norfolk (including helicopter pad).
02:09:27 John arrives, and brother and sister meet on the dockside, exchaning hugs and gifts.
02:12:11 Interview with John and Becky.
02:16:53 Telephone call to their mother in the car on the way to the Kuwaiti border.
02:19:05 The border with Iraq: John explains the surroundings to his sister as a military convoy passes. US Army border guards keep watch.
02:22:11 John gets ready to depart: the two exchange goodbyes. Becky waves goodbye as the car departs.
02:23:26 Various cutaway shots of the border and US Army convoy; also further shots of HMS Norfolk and of the journey to Kuwait (some shots repeated from earlier in tape).
END 02:27:32
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2003 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 117
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2003-11-08
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mudie, John (person)
Mudie, Rebecca (person)
British Army, 1st Battalion, Light Infantry (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, NORFOLK (HMS) (regiment/service)
Keywords: Kuwait City, Kuwait (geography)
Basra, Iraq (geography)
Operation Telic, Iraq War 2003-2009 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Royal Navy 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: 25 mins
