Summary: British forces deliver supplies to inhabitants of Perim Island.
Description: British Army unit in Bedford trucks, on training patrol in Western Aden Protectorate, takes time off to deliver Christmas gifts to the impoverished islanders of Perim. The British soldiers, based for the exercise at the old Bir Sukaiya fort where they are seen with black-turbanned members of the Federation National Guard looking towards the Yemen border, are ferried across by a De Havilland Beaver of the Army Air Corps to Perim Island. An RAF Vickers Valletta then flies low over the island, dropping supply crates by parachute.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:RMY 240
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1946-1975
Production Date:1962
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Visnews (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Army Air Corps (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, Sqdn, 233 (regiment/service)
Aden Army, Federation National Guard (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - transport: Vickers Valletta (object name)
celebrations, Aden - popular: Christmas (object name)
society, British military - friendship (object name)
supplies, British, movement - misc: para-drop (object name)
transport, British military - amphibious: Beaver (object name)
Aden & Perim Island (geography)
Western Aden Protectorate & <Bir Sukaiya Fort> (geography)
