Title:COMMEMORATIONS IN GREENWICH AND ST JAMES'S PARK, LONDON, FOR THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALKLANDS CAMPAIGN, 14 JUNE 2007 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 1277
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes before a commemorative service and dinner at the Old Naval College Greenwich; and scenes of a Falkland Veterans' parade near St James's Park in London.
Description: Interview with Lieutenant Colonel Richard Callander, Project Director for the Armed Forces Memorial, discussing the object of the Memorial (to commemorate those killed on duty since the Second World War) and the dinner, which will raise funds towards the Memorial project.
Interview with Martin Withers, pilot of the Vulcan aircraft flown during Operation Blackbuck, 1 May 1982 (bombing of Port Stanley Airfield); he talks about the meal and what it represents. He also discusses the memories of his flight from Ascension Island to the Falklands back in 1982.
Interview with Colonel Richard Hutchings, who was a Royal Marine pilot flying support helicopters during the Falklands Campaign, gives his memories.
Senior forces' personnel begin to arrive at the event, cuminating in the arrival of HRH Princess Anne the Princess Royal and her husband Rear Admiral Tim Laurence, accompanied by Sara Jones (widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Jones VC OBE, killed in action during the Battle of Goose Green) who greet various guests. Also seen arriving is Baroness Thatcher.
Parade through the streets of various regiments including Gurkhas. Saint James's Park: Falklands veteran's gather and mingle. Close-ups of medals. Veterans and serving soldiers march through the streets (quite informal; they continue conversing and are not in strict formation as they gather for the parade. Guards Band and others line up for the formal part of the commemorations: they stand to attention and lead the parade as it marches down the road by St James's Park before assembling at Horse Guard's Parade.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 1277
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2007-04-14
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Blunden, Jennie (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Anne, Princess (Princess Royal) (person)
Laurence, Timothy James Hamilton (person)
Thatcher, Margaret Hilda (person)
Jones, Sara (person)
Callander, Richard (person)
Hutchings, Richard (person)
Withers, Martin (person)
British Army (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Royal Navy (regiment/service)
Keywords: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, England, UK (geography)
Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, Westminster, London, England, UK (geography)
