Title:OPERATION GRAPPLE ON CHRISTMAS ISLAND [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 6816
Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY SERGEANT JARDINE [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur film without titles shot by Sergeant Jardine of the activities of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) Special Unit during the period of Operation Grapple, 1956-1957.
Description: The footage covers everyday activities of members of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) on Christmas Island. Various scenes at their tented camp including shots of personnel drinking tea, working in the stores, labelling and moving crates, pets (a dog and a cat), work in the laundry, portrait shots of a number members of the RAOC queuing at a tea urn, a brief shot of officers drinking in an Officers' Mess, Christmas Dinner in the Mess (RAOC personnel wearing paper-hats) and scenes of a beach football. The beach football scenes include shots of an unusually painted (red, yellow and blue) DUKW.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY SERGEANT JARDINE [Alternative Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 6816
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1946-1975
Production Date:1956
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Jardine (Sergeant) (Production individual)
