Title:IRAQI ARMY TRAINING, SHATT AL-ARAB HOTEL, BASRA, 12 MARCH 2007 (ROUGH EDIT) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 892
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Summary: Members of the Iraqi Army's 10 Division, newly relocated in the Shatt Al-Arab Hotel (which has now been vacated by British forces), undergo basic training.
Description: General views at the Hotel: Iraqi Army officers set upon a table and inspect large map of Basra. Sentries keep guard at main gate and in sangar. Armoured vehicles. Iraqi troops talk with a British soldier (1st Battalion the Staffordshire Regiment). Iraqi Army pick up truck with rear-mounted gun drives past camera. Training on parade square: troops assemble and are briefed. They carry out patrol drills and vehicle checkpoint drills: soldiers stop and search a pick up truck and its occupants. Group of sitting soldiers watch as fire and manoeuvre drills are carried out, and applaud. Soldiers march off while singing a song. Interview with Major Yaas, a Company Commander in the Iraqi Army's 10 Division.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 892
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2007-03-12
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production sponsor)
Tilly, Ross (Corporal, RAF) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Yaas (Major) (person)
Iraqi Army, 10 Division (regiment/service)
British Army, Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's), 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
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: 13 mins
