Title:CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF GENERAL SIR RICHARD DANNATT VISITS BASRA, 15 FEBRUARY 2007 (ROUGH EDIT) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 872
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Summary: General Sir Richard Dannatt visits British troops in Southern Iraq.
Description: General Dannatt arrives at Basra Palace by Sea King helicopter; there, he meets with troops and joins them in the cookhouse before inspecting the Bulldog armoured vehicles and their crews. In Basra City, he visits a joint Iraqi and British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint set up as part of Operation Troy (an operation to "lock down" the city, checking all the main routes into the city). Vehicles are searched. Interviews with Corporal Stuart Mcgrath of 2 Rifles and Major Quentin Naylor, OC B (Bulldog) Company, 2nd Battalion the Rifles.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 872
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2007-02-15
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production sponsor)
Tilly, Ross (Corporal, RAF) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Dannatt, Richard (person)
Naylor, Quentin (person)
Iraqi Army (regiment/service)
British Army, The Rifles, 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: Basra Palace, 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: 9 mins
