Title:OPERATION OYSTER, MAYSAN PROVINCE, 19 AUGUST 2006 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 815
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Summary: Scenes from Operation Oyster. Members of the Queen's Royal Hussars Battlegroup (QRH) prepare to move out of Camp Abu Naji to a desert location; the camp will then be handed over to Iraqi forces.
Description: Aerial shots of Maysan province and general views of life at Camp Abu Naji, including vehicle removal. Plaque is removed from memorial garden and wrapped for transportation (the memorial wall is being transferred back to Basra). Heavy lifter moves ISO containers and loads them onto articulated trailers. Interview with Major David Sparks (Battlegroup Logistics Officer), discussing the removal of equipment in convoys from the camp. Lieutenant Colonel David Labouchere, CO of QRH, discusses the move from Camp Abu Naji into the desert. Interview with Private Simon "Buster" Bowers, driving heavy lifters, and William Phillip James, a civilian HGV driver working in Iraq driving a Heavy Equipment Transporter. Merlin helicopter takes off; aerial views of the massive 1 QRH convoy driving through Maysan Province. Shots of helicopter crew and cockpit. Sunset over Camp Abu Naji (brief shot).
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 815
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2006-08-19
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production sponsor)
Hennessey, Jim (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Labouchere, David Henry (person)
Sparks, David (person)
British Army, Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish), 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: Camp Abu Naji, Al-Amarah, 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: DVCPRO
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 33; Running time: 14 mins
