Personalities in the Middle East

Series

Series Name

War Pictorial News

Issue

Issue No.

57

Date Released

1 Jun 1942

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Duke of Gloucester Visits Iran
2. 2Greece Fights On
3. 3Personalities in the Middle East
4. 4With the Free French in the Chad

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

Field Marshal Smuts, recently 72, makes a tour of inspection of his troops in the Western Desert. Receives a huge welcome. Takes some photographs at Bardia; at Sollum, on the Egyptian frontier, he addresses some of the troops. At a small coastal town, the General watches streams of transport arriving for assembly at the quayside by South African troops.

Keywords

Politics and government; Ships and boats

Credits:

Commentator

Rex Keating

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Film Archive

Name

Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive

Email

film@iwm.org.uk

Web

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

Phone

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Fax

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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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