Generals Sikorski and Anders review marching troops in Iraq

Identifier
irn594948
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • RG-60.0174
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Imperial War Museums
  • War Office Film Unit (Producer)
  • P A. Barnes (Camera Operator)

Scope and Content

Part of reel 1. A line of people wait for food distribution by the British Military Administration in the administrative division of Tripolitania. They receive canned and dried rations. They appear to be of a variety of ethnicities, identified by the Imperial War Museums catalog record as “Maltese, Indians, Greeks, Jews, and Sudanese.” Another scene shows children receiving bread. One of the distributors wears an armband with a cross on it.

Subjects

  • CHILDREN
  • FOOD
  • REFUGEES
  • JEWS
  • BREAD
  • ARMBANDS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH)
  • SIKORSKI, WLADYSLAW

Places

  • , Iraq

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.