Title:STATEMENTS ABOUT BASRA INCIDENT, 21 SEPTEMBER 2005 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 254
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Members of the Staffordshire Regiment and the Coldstream Guards are interviewed about a serious incident during which their Warrior armoured vehicle was attacked with petrol bombs.
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:00:30 Informal interviews in mess at headquarters with three of the soldiers involved, Sergeant George Long, Private Ryon Burton and Lance Corporal Joe McCann and Second Lieutenant Cliffe. The soldiers bear the injuries of their ordeal. (Poor sound.)
00:14:48 Sergeant Long, Private Burton and Lance Corporal McCann stand outside their damaged Warrior and give more formal accounts of the incident, both together and individually. Also includes general views of the soldiers and the damaged Warrior.
00:21:03 Individual interview with Sergeant Burton on the Warrior.
00:23:14 Cut-in shot of the Warrior hatch.
00:23:49 Interview with Lance Corporal McCann.
00:26:56 Inside, other soldiers (not named, but from the Coldstream Guards), crewing the Snatch Land Rovers at the incident, give their own accounts of the events which unfolded.
00:32:30 Interview with Sergeant Major (not named), Coldstream Guards, standing by Snatch Land Rovers.
00:35:50 Interview with Sergeant (not named), Coldstream Guards; he bears the scars on his upper lip where a stone had hit him.
END 00:39:22
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 254
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2005-09-21
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
McIvor, Mac (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Long, George (person)
McCann, Joe (person)
Burton, Ryon (person)
Cliffe (Second Lieutenant) (person)
British Army, Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's), 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
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; Running time: 39 mins
