Title:7TH BATTALION THE ROYAL NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS - ANNUAL CAMP, MERSTHAM, 1960 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 3714-1
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Summary: Amateur record of Territorial Army annual camp at Merstham, Surrey in 1960, and other ceremonial and exercise activity of the 7th Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers from the same period.
Description: Soldiers enter and exit church, receive medals and march down High Street, presumably in Merstham in May 1960. After Civil Defence exercise erecting sheer leg triangle, men lunch and, following medal awards, march past Lieutenant-Colonel Mitchell DSO, serving in his last command. Group photograph of Battalion. General Festing arrives. On exercise on moors (Pendell Camp ?). Local squire presents silver platter and officers and men drink toast, presumably to mark end of exercise.
Production Details: Potts, R W L (Corporal) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mitchell (Lieutenant Colonel) (person)
Smail, J I M (person)
Festing, Francis Wogan (person)
Calvert, S A (person)
British Army, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, 7th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Territorials (regiment/service)
Keywords: operations, British military - routine: ceremonial (object name)
operations, British military - routine: camp (object name)
Merstham, Surrey, England, UK (geography)
