Title:THREE BROTHERS HOBBY: BROTHERS SERVE TOGETHER IN INDIA AND RAF BATTLE OF BRITAIN PARADE IN CALCUTTA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MWY 11
Other titles:INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Two-item reel showing (1) scenes of three brothers, Privates Lawrence, Leslie and John Hobby, of Poole in Dorset, serving together in India and (2) Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse attends a Battle of Britain anniversary church parade in Calcutta.
Description: Part 1: The three brothers queue for their breakfast at an open air cookhouse. Eating together. Forming up in full kit before a route march. The three brothers on the march (shot from a trolley or jeep). Bayonet charge during training. They throw themselves flat on the ground and fire their rifles (apparently firing dry with no ammunition). Crouching photographer. The three brothers descend on a local fruit seller on camp and snatch up bunches of bananas that they wolf down. The three brothers, each washing in a tin bath; they turn and grin at the camera. One brother runs to the other two with a much-prized letter from home. Reading the letter.
Part 2: Troops marching past into a cathedral with others on parade. A pipe band plays. Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse (Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief) arrives by car with Air Vice Marshal Williams (Air Officer Commanding Bengal). Peirse salutes the RAF Regiment guard of honour. Inspecting the guard. On saluting base for the march past, led by the pipe band of the Bengal Artillery.
Alternative Title:INDIAN INTER-SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTORATE COLLECTION - INDIAN HOME FRONT AND MILITARY OPERATIONS, AND ALLIED OPERATIONS IN ITALY AND THE PACIFIC DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Public Relations Directorate, India (Production sponsor)
Indian Public Relations Film Unit (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Peirse, Richard Edmund Charles (person)
Williams, Thomas (person)
British Army, Dorsetshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, Royal Air Force Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: Calcutta, North East India, India (geography)
Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme)
