Title:THE KING VISITS TROOPS IN ITALY AT UMBERTIDE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MWY 38
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: At Umbertide, in Perugia, Italy, King George VI visits troops of 10th Indian Division.
Description: High shot looking over a street in Umbertide, the Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, with troops in single ranks on the curbs. The circular buttressed Santa Maria della Reggia stands in the background and closer to camera is a building marked ‘Field Cashier’. The troops appear to be waiting and are at ease. Closer shot; Sikh troops waiting. Three British officers waving from small individual balconies. An Indian officer waves from a window. Troops looking towards the oncoming motorcade. The King’s car passes and the men cheer him. The King meets a Viceroy’s Commissioned Officer. A very brief shot appears to show the King meeting Gurkhas, with the officer behind them. The King sitting on the back of his staff car, probably about to depart and talking to an officer; Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese is sitting in the driver’s seat.
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)
Walker, D C (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Leese, Oliver William Hargreaves (person)
George VI, King (person)
Indian Army, 10th Indian Division (regiment/service)
Keywords: Umbertide, Perugia, Italy (geography)
Trasimene Line 1944, Italy, Second World War (event)
Italy 1939-1945 (theme)
Indian Army 1939-1945 (theme)
