Title:REPATRIATION CEREMONY, BASRA AIR STATION, 15 SEPTEMBER 2006 (TAPE 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 822
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Repatriation ceremony at Basra Air Station for Gunner Stephen Robert Wright, Gunner Samuela Vanua and Gunner Lee Thornton of 12th Regiment Royal Artillery. Camera position is at ground level on the apron. (Only the coffins of Gunner Wright and Gunner Vanua are being repatriated, but Gunner Thornton is remembered alongside his colleagues in the prayers at the ceremony.)
Description:
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 822
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2006-09-15
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production sponsor)
Hennessey, Gordon (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Wright, Stephen Robert (person)
Vanua, Samuela (person)
Thornton, Lee Darren (person)
British Army, Royal Artillery, 12th Regiment [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: 20 mins (ca)
