Title:TERRITORIAL ARMY TRAINING SUMMER CAMP OF 205 FIELD SQUADRON ROYAL ENGINEERS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 6850
Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY SERGEANT-MAJOR IVOR DANCEY [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur film shot by Sergeant-Major Ivor Dancey during the annual summer camp of 205 Field Squadron Royal Engineers (RE) of British Army covers training and off-duty scenes on Alderney (Channel Islands) and Wyke Regis (Dorset).
Description: (0-3 mins 45 secs) Alderney: soldiers in battledress on dockside, then unloading truck, erecting tented camp; one soldier has haircut. Soldier standing with red squadron flag by camp flag pole. Pan over beach. Men resting in sun. Humorous performance with soldiers mostly wearing head dress, then prostrating themselves on sand in mock homage to unidentified authority figure; several wear feminine fancy dress. Back on duty, soldiers march along coastal road before formal inspection during church parade. Erection of large tent. Playing military band marches along road. Pan over coast and blue sea.
(3 mins 45 secs - 5 mins 30 secs) Centurion tank manoeuvres at TA Centre, Weston Super Mare (Somerset). Soldiers beside Army lorry vehicle park, with dog in foreground.
(5 mins 30 secs - 7 mins 05 secs) Wyke Regis Army Training Area - Southern Command Bridging Camp, Royal Engneers. Brief magenta scenes shot in wood. As part of a bridge building exercise, soldiers build a light assault floating bridge (LAFB). pontoon bridge. Inter Regiment rowing race along Fleet Tidal lagoon between 204 Field Sqauadron - Bath, 205 Field Squadron - Weston Super Mare and 207 Field Squadron - Bristol, with Nissen hut on shore in background, filmed from Chesil Beach. Senior officer and wife at prize giving.
(7 mins 05 secs - 7.30 secs) Preparations to blow up Glastonbury Sewage Works.
(7 mins 30 secs - ) Wyke Regis Army Training Area - possibly following year's TA camp. Road construction exercise using tipper truck and manual labour. Regimental ceremony with officers in mess kit, and mock execution ceremony by hanging and beheading. Another rowing regatta on Fleet lagoon. Parade inspected above Chesil Beach. Construction of pontoon from oil drums, for carrying land rover. Testing flat bottomed speed boats. Rowing regatta. Speed boat manoeuvres Land Rover. More road and bridge building, helped by steam roller and bulldozer. End of camp photo, with cook posing traditionally on left. Flag lowered at tend of camp. and held up for camera. Demolition of a house on Salisbury Plain.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY SERGEANT-MAJOR IVOR DANCEY [Alternative Title]
