Title:KAMAL RAM VC VISITS INDIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL IN ROME [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MWY 42
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 an Indian General Hospital in Rome, Italy, Victoria Cross winner Kamal Ram visits patients.
Description: A British lieutenant-general, wearing the patch of GHQ India, meeting an (Indian?) officer; another senior officer wears the patch of 4th Indian Division. The general inspects a guard of four Indian soldiers (tents in the background) he meets more (senior?) Indian soldiers. He addresses a group of Indian soldiers, with coniferous trees and tents behind. He shakes hands with a noticeably young-looking Indian soldier of 8th Indian Division. He walks with another officer through small trees. [77 ft] Outside an Indian General Hospital, Kamal Ram VC with three officers, two Indian and one British. Shaking hands with a lieutenant-colonel, commander of the hospital. Close-up of Ram, with his ‘8 Punjab’ shoulder title clearly visible. Interior; Ram reads a message of goodwill to a microphone. Various further shots. Meeting patients.
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: Ram, Kamal (person)
Indian Army, 4th Indian Division (regiment/service)
Indian Army, 8th Indian Division (regiment/service)
