Title:OPERATION MATURIN, PAKISTAN, OCTOBER 2005-JANUARY 2006 (TAPE 4) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 1404
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes from Operation Maturin, an earthquake disaster relief operation in Pakistan. Members of RAF 27 Squadron at work and relaxing.
Description: Accommodation for British personnel: they are sleeping in tents which have been erected in a large warehouse. Workshop and administrative area, where airmen are repairing small items of kit (such as helmets) and filling in paperwork. A map is inspected. Leisure time: dart board. (No sound.)
Drive through of streets in Pakistan (Rawalpindi ?). Market stalls, including livestock market, are passed. (No sound.)
Impromptu football match near open-air tented camp. Soldiers sit and relax; others gather up sacks of supplies and tents into piles which are covered with clear plastic. (One of the men is wearing a t-shirt marked "The Welsh Cavalry" ie 1st the Queen's Dragoon Guards). Hawk flies overhead. Further views of tented camp.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 1404
Sound:Silent (part Sound)
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2005-11-01
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Morris (Senior Aircraftman) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force, 27 Squadron (regiment/service)
British Army, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (regiment/service)
Keywords: Rawalpindi, Pakistan (geography)
Royal Air Force post-2000 (theme)
