Title:AUCHINLECK OPENS NEW WAVELL CANTEEN NEAR DELHI [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MWY 93
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: Near Delhi main station Lady Auchinleck opens the new Auchinleck Aramgarh (resting place) for Indian troops, while General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, lays a foundation stone at a New Wavell Canteen.
Description: [10:57:27:16] An Indian havildar (sergeant) wearing the patch of GHQ (India). General and Lady Auchinleck arriving. Brigadier Muirhead (commander Delhi area) gives a talk. An Indian civilian dignitary decorates Lady Auchinleck with a garland, and does the same to General Auchinleck. Lady Auchinleck entering a building. Leaving with Muirhead. Auchinleck leaves a building; the garland he is wearing reaches almost to his knees. Sign ‘Wavell Canteen: For Troops in Uniform’ at the old canteen. The sign also carries two Indian scripts; pan down to Auchinleck and Lady Auchinleck going inside. Muirhead shows Auchinleck the site of a New Wavell canteen. Auchinleck and Muirhead. Close-up of the foundation stone; ‘This stone was laid by HE General Sir Claude Auchinleck…5th February 1944 / The building is the gift of Seth Ramkrishna Dalmia / The swimming pool is the gift of R S S Capt Kirparam MA LLB ALRO’. General Auchinleck and others in conversation. Sir Feroz Khan Noon gives a speech. Auchinleck, with a trowel, lays some cement and the stone is laid (this shot is cut prematurely). [10:59:38:08]
Attached media - film MWY 92 and MWY 93
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)
Bacha, R A (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Auchinleck, Claude John Eyre (person)
Muirhead, James Ingram (person)
Keywords: Delhi, North Central India, India (geography)
Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme)
India 1939-1945 (theme)
