Title:GORDONS BATTALION ARMY CADET FORCE ANNUAL CAMP, SCOTLAND [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 4952
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Summary: Unedited footage, without captions, showing activities of cadets at camp in North East Scotland.
Description: (Colour) Kilted soldiers at camp; two attend to a generator, others undergo kit inspection from officer. Small pipe and drum band plays. Troops are inspected.
(B&W) Field exercises: cadets drink tea on the moors and take part in mortar firings (including one very young cadet). Applause for the camera. Marchpast and salute; soldiers in tam o’shanters march and stand to attention. Large pipe band. Further marchpast and inspection, with senior officer taking the salute.
(Colour) Gun drills in open country, watched over by senior officers. Men stand around smoking cigarettes. Tented camp: kit is inspected and senior officer saluted. Soldiers pose for the camera. Physical activities: athletics, high jump. Brass band walks through village as troops/cadets march. Laundry is distributed back at camp. Cadets practice climbing over a wall of logs and jumping across a pit during a combat exercise (watched by older cadets). March through woodland. Group of senior officers talking; one is RAF. Mealtime at a mess hut; cadets take up two plates, one for the main meal, another for dessert. Inspection of food preparation. More scenes of soldiers marching. REME instrument exhibition in field. Senior officer inspects troops.
