Title:THE HEAD OF THE BRITISH MILITARY STAFF IN PARIS VISITS GENERAL KOENIG [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 144-1
Other titles:FRENCH POLITICAL AND MILITARY LEADERS ATTEND A CHURCH SERVICE [Allocated Title]
Summary: Two sequences showing Allied activities in liberated Paris, September 1944.
Description: I. Brigadier Carthew-Yorston, the head of the British Military Staff in Paris arrives in his staff-car at the Palace d'Invalides to pay his first official visit to the headquarters of General Koenig, Governor of Paris and Commander-in-Chief of the FFI.
II. General de Gaulle, accompanied by French military and political figures and Allied officers, attends a service commemorating the fifth anniversary of the outbreak of the war at the church of Notre Dame des Victoires. (This takes place earlier in the morning than the previous sequence.)
Alternative Title:FRENCH POLITICAL AND MILITARY LEADERS ATTEND A CHURCH SERVICE [Allocated Title]
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Rudkin (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Carthew-Yorston (Brigadier) (person)
Koenig, Pierre (person)
Gaulle, Charles André Joseph Marie de (person)
Forces Francaises de l'Interieur (regiment/service)
French Army, Garde Republicaine (regiment/service)
British Army, Army Film and Photographic Unit (regiment/service)
French police (regiment/service)
Keywords: religion, Christianity (object name)
Military Mission (object name)
transport, British military - car: Humber Pullman staff car (object name)
Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography)
