Title:REPATRIATION OF FUSILIER GORDON GENTLE, BASRA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (ROUGH EDIT) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 580
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Repatriation ceremony at Basra International Airport for Fusilier Gordon Gentle of 1st Battalion Royal Highland Fusiliers, killed by an improvised explosive device on 28 June 2004.
Description: Coffin (draped in the Union flag) is taken by bearer party from the back of a battlefield ambulance and borne onto the apron. Padre performs ceremony as colleagues listen with heads bowed. Coffin is carried on board C17 Globemaster aircraft. Bugler plays the Last Post as the door of the aircraft is closed. Piper plays lament and walks from the apron. Soldiers stand to attention. Bearer party marches off. Further (close) shots of piper playing.
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 580
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2004-07-01
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Army Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Allison, Gordon (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Gentle, Gordon (person)
British Army, Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment), 1st Battalion [NEW TERM] (regiment/service)
Keywords: Basra International Airport, Basra, Iraq (geography)
Operation Telic, Iraq War 2003-2009 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
Remembrance (theme)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: None
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: DVCPRO
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 33; Running time: 17 mins
BFA 2808 (REPATRIATION OF FUSILIER GORDON GENTLE, BASRA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT [Allocated Title])
BFV 581 (REPATRIATION OF FUSILIER GORDON GENTLE, BASRA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (MASTER) [Allocated Title])