Chronological record of the advance of the Eighth Army though Libya and Tunisia, as filmed by Dr. Cowie of the Fifth Field Ambulance Unit, 1942 -1943.
Nissan hut and tents. Officer with glasses. Nurse officer. Barber. Nurse. Senior officers, wheelchair bound patient.
Ghaziro Sports Club. River harbour, ferry, sailing boats. Arab township, shops, religious parade. Washing day.
55 Wounded soldier on stretcher.
17 Army car.
4 New Zealand Forces Club, township.
12 Large tents, ablution tent.
5 Ambulances, jeeps.
34 Desert convoy.
56 Camp,‘billy’.
33 Hospital camp tents.
5 Army brass band.
13 Planes fly past.
11 Unit briefing by C.O.
41 Unloading supplies from ambulance truck.
56 Unloading wounded troops.
:53 Captured anti - aircraft gun.
1:20 Transport plane lands.
2:28 His Majesties Service (H.M.S.) Seremitas in dock.
1 Swimming.
13 Memorial and cemetery.
41 Pan across bombed encampment.
27 Bombed township.
Damaged Focke, Wolfe on ground, other war planes.
22 Tanks.
55 Volleyball.
0 Italian monument on the road, Arae Phila.
:04 Lsander fly past.
1:05 Water tankers.
1:51 Vittorio Emanuel Hospital and township.
2:18 Sign reads, “Pericolo”.
2:41 Road sign, “Pronto Soccerse”, with red cross in the middle.
2:54 Township with sunken yacht in harbour. Italian monuments.
2 Ceremonial march past.
0 Soccer game.
3 Prisoners of War.
43 Wall painted with, “ociete Tunisienne ...esPetroles”.
7 Ancient ruins.
21 Signpost reads, “Tunis”. Township. Street scenes.
56 Hotel Majestic reads, “officers only”.
16 Destroyed German planes.
41 Ancient ruins.
48 Airport.
:06 Sign on vehicle has fern leaf and number 54.
1:16 Well.
1:31 Township, its inhabitants mix with soldiers.
4:00 Soldiers playing ball.
4:37 Countryside, trucks and ambulances.
1 American Eagle sign on vehicle.
1 Prisoners of War.
50 Township by sea. Building has painted on the side, “Wilfvehrer- Vincere”. Street scenes.
2:11 Ends.