Title:CAPTURED WEAPONS CACHE ON DISPLAY AT THE SHATT AL-ARAB HOTEL (ROUGH EDIT) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 881
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Summary: The discovery by 1st Battalion the Staffordshire Regiment of a large weapons cache in Basra near the Shatt Al-Arab Hotel, which was then removed to the base at the hotel.
Description: I. Interviews in the Shatt Al-Arab Hotel with members of 1st Battalion the Staffordshire Regiment, including Corporal Dave Lovell, Corporal Sean Mcleod and WO2 Simon Jones (RSM, unit search adviser) about the circumstances of the weapons find. (In the background are the colours of 1 Staffords.)
II. The cache is displayed in hangar for the camera; various items are described by WO2 Jones, Corporal McLeod and Corporal Lovell. The cache is substantial, and includes rockets, mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, parts of improvised explosive devices and grenades, plus an improvised small rocket launch apparatus. Cameraman walks through the cache, showing the true extent of the find. Outside, (at night) damage caused by mortars in the compound at the hotel is shown, including wrecked fuel pods and the remnants of a metal cabin.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 881
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2007-03-05
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production sponsor)
Tilly, Ross (Corporal, RAF) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Lovell, Dave (person)
Mcleod, Sean (person)
Jones, Simon (person)
Keywords: Shatt al-Arab Hotel, 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: 19 mins
