New Governor of Cyrenaica

Series

Series Name

War Pictorial News

Issue

Issue No.

013 (1)

Date Released

10 Mar 1941

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Britain Mightier Yet
2. 2New Governor of Cyrenaica
3. 3Mr Anthony Eden Visits Turkey
4. 4Eritrea
5. *(Untitled record)

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

General Sir Harry Wilson, military Governor of Cyrenaica, chats with local dignitaries before setting off on a tour of inspection. Inspects a complete camel corps captured from the enemy. Benghazi harbour - badly bombed. Huge quantities of war equipment captured from the Italians.

Keywords

Ships and boats; Weapons; Ceremonies; War damage; Animals; Military

Credits:

Commentator

Rex Keating

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive

Email

film@iwm.org.uk

Web

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/film

Phone

020 7416 5291

Fax

020 7416 5379

Address

Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ

Notes

The IWM also preserves the original nitrate film copies for the World War II period of British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.

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