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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Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive
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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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