OPERATION YORICK, FEBRUARY 2004: 20 BRIGADE NIGHT OPERATIONS ON ROUTE 6 NORTH OF BASRA [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: OPERATION YORICK, FEBRUARY 2004: 20 BRIGADE NIGHT OPERATIONS ON ROUTE 6 NORTH OF BASRA [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: BFV 420
  • Other titles: BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Scenes of Operation Yorick, a brigade level search and arrest operation in association with the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps (ICDC) and the Iraqi Police Service (including the Special Operations Directive) at the old Iraqi Army 3 Corps hradquarters, now used by criminals. Shot with an image intensifier, giving the image a grainy, green, monochrome glow.
  • Description: START 00:00:00 Bars. 00:01:06 Vehicles (including British Army Land Rovers and Iraqi Police Service pick-up trucks) park by the roadside and prepare for operations. 00:02:27 Soldiers on foot patrol near the target building (an old barracks). Camera zooms in on the house where masked ICDC members are rounding up suspects. Cameraman moves quickly towards the barracks. Women and children cry as menfolk are detained. British soldiers enter to do a search with the Iraqi Police. Inside, the search gets underway. 00:05:53 Outside, soldiers and police patrol the area. (Shaky camerawork.) 00:07:06 Further interior shots, this time in a corridor; camera follows the soldiers on their search. 00:08:01 General views of soldiers and police, and of prisoners being lined up with their hands raised. They are searched. 00:11:22 Soldiers and police patrol the outer wall of the barracks in large numbers. 00:14:41 Inside, the search goes on; outside, an area search takes place. Woman protests quietly to personnel present. 00:17:02 Grainy colour shot inside the house's kitchen. 00:17:17 Image intensifier shots outside showing police pick-ups; policemen get on board and they drive away. British soldiers stay on site, patrolling the grounds of the barracks. 00:22:19 Soldiers outside a large compound (with high wire-mesh walls) in the camp, where prisoners are temporarily kept under guard. 00:23:08 Grainy colours hots inside; the soldiers take tea with women and children. Still cameraman shows off photographs; voices are recorded by reporter. 00:24:57 Image intensifier shots of compound where the prisoners are being held. Display of captured contraband. 00:26:00 Interview Major Dickie Donovan, OC Reconnaissance Company 1st Battalion the Royal Scots discussing the search and arrest operation with the ICDC and the Iraqi Police; some small arms ammunition and two grenades had been found. 00:28:07 Lieutenant Colonel Julian Free (?), 26 Regiment the Royal Artillery is interviewed about the operation. 00:34:22 Shots of the seized ammunition and weapons, bagged ready for transportation, and of prisoners being held under guard. END 00:35:52
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: BFV 420
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM
  • Featured Period:
  • Production Date: 2004-02
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (RAF Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), 1st Battalion (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Engineers, 26 Engineer Regiment (regiment/service) Iraqi Civil Defence Corps (regiment/service) Iraqi Police Service (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: Mini-DV Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Tape length: 63; Running time: 35 mins
  • HD Media:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    BFV 420

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    BFV 485 (RAF COMBAT CAMERA TEAM MASTERS TAPE 2 [Allocated Title])
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