Title:BRITISH SOLDIERS ON PATROL IN BAGHDAD, IRAQ, 4 AND 5 JANUARY 2008 (TAPE 3) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 1421
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Members of 1st Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland (Royal Scots Borderers) and the US Army, part of 210 MITT (Military Transition Team), on foot patrol with the Iraqi Army in the "Red Zone" in Baghdad. Images taken from helmet camera worn by Captain Lorna Ward of the Combat Camera Team.
Description: Scenes inside moving vehicle containing members of 210 MITT; the vehicle is a Hummer with a gun turrent mounting. Views from the window showing derelict areas.
Joint foot patrol with 210 MITT and the Iraqi Army. Iraqi Hummer parked up. Patrol walks through streets (Corporal Andy Holmes can be seen shooting the activities of the patrol. Informal conversation with Captain Kevin Gartside as the patrol continues; he describes some of the situations and incidents. Wrecked houses and empty houses are passed. Exterior of mosque; amplified voice of muezzin can be heard as Corporal Holmes films. Semi-derelict area. Chat with Corporal Holmes. Patrol continues; brief views inside local (occupied) house. Many views of Corporal Holmes at work. Team climbs back into Hummer (the electronic equipment in the vehicle causes havoc with the sound on the helmet cam).
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 1421
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2008-01-05
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Ward, Lorna (Captain) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Ward, Lorna (person)
Gartside, Kevin (person)
Holmes, Andy (person)
British Army, Royal Regiment of Scotland, 1st Battalion (The Royal Scots Borderers) (regiment/service)
United States Army (regiment/service)
Iraqi Army, 10 Division (regiment/service)
Keywords: Baghdad, Iraq (geography)
British Operations in Iraq from 2003 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
