Title:FORCE PROTECTION LAND ROVER ON PATROL IN BASRA, 2 MAY 2005 (EDIT) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 194
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes taken from top cover on a moving Land Rover of the Coldstream Guards.
Description: Views of bleak landscape outside Basra; many derelict buildings can be seen, and there is rubble by the roadside (this area is not built up). Land Rovers pull up and soldiers disembark for brief roadside check before setting off again. Further such roadside checks. Further road scenes around Basra; piles of rubbish and damaged buildings are passed at the roadside. Patrol passes some buildings seen earlier. Busy streets nearer the centre; soldiers disembark for roadside checks - one stands outside a large ice cream parlour. (Nearby is the Hasawiyah Mosque.) Patrol sets off again along road beside a canal, where hundreds of boats are moored. Patrol passes roadside market.
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 194
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2005-05-02 2005-05-29
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Coldstream Guards (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
