Title:BRITISH SOLDIERS ON PATROL IN BAGHDAD, IRAQ, 4 AND 5 JANUARY 2008 (TAPE 4) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 1422
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Members of 1st Battalion the Mercian Regiment (Cheshires) patrol the International Zone (the "Green Zone") in Baghdad. (Footage taken by Corporal Ralph Merry, normally a stills photographer.)
Description: Scenes in the back of a Snatch Land Rover; soldiers sit in the cramped conditions. Corporal Andy Holmes, RAF cameraman, is filmed in close-up (as he himself carries out filming). Fortified compounds in the Green Zone.
Arrival on the military parade ground next to the "Hands of Victory" monuments (also known as the Swords of Qadisiyah): here, various tactical training procedures using the Land Rovers are carried out, including advanced driving and evasive manoeuvres.
Combat Camera Team at work: Captain Lorna Ward interviews Private Andrew Lloyd and and Second Lieutenant Ryan March of 1 MERCIAN, filmed by Corporal Andy Holmes.
(Black screen at 19 mins, although muffled ambient sound can be heard, including voices talking informally for ten minutes; this sequence has not been included in the total liming for the tape).)
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 1422
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2008-01-04
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Merry, Ralph (Corporal) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Ward, Lorna (person)
British Army, Mercian Regiment, 1st Battalion (Cheshires) (regiment/service)
Keywords: Baghdad, Iraq (geography)
British Operations in Iraq from 2003 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
