Title:8TH ARMY PUSH ON TO SIDI BARRANI; TOBRUK [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 276/2
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The Eighth Army in the Western Desert.
Description: 10 to 11 November. Honey tanks of the Derbyshire Yeomanry pass knocked out German Mark IV tanks on their way to Sidi Barrani. British tanks being filled up by the Royal Australian Air Force. Grounded German aircraft that had been left at Landing Ground 121. British forward troops enter Sidi Barrani. Prisoners taken at Hellfire Pass (Halfaya Pass) by the King's Royal Rifle Corps. Transport reaches Sollum. Transport advances past a sign for Tobruk. German graves at Capuzzo cemetery.
13 November. Transport entering Tobruk.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Acland, A W (Production individual)
Groom, G (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
British Army, Derbyshire Yeomanry (regiment/service)
Royal Australian Air Force (regiment/service)
British Army, King's Royal Rifle Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: Tobruk, Butnan, Libya (geography)
Sidi Barrani, Egypt (geography)
Sollum, Egypt (geography)
Halfaya Pass, Egypt (geography)
Western Desert 1940-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
