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Activities and New Year messages home by members of 1st Battalion the Royal Scots Guards Battle Group.
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START 03:00:30 Pipes and drums of the Royal Scots Guards play in the open outside their garrison.
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03:06:11 Cutaway shot of the Royal Flag of Scotland on the side of a vehicle.
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03:06:25 Soldiers attach anti-rocket screens onto the side of Warrior armoured vehicles.
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03:07:43 Christmas and New Year messages to camera from members of the Guards, including Warrant Officer 2 (Company Sergeant Major) Ronnie Corbett, Lance Corporal Neil Rony, Lance Sergeant Brian Heriot, Guardsman Stephen Hunt (Craftsman with REME), Lance Sergeant Neil Macrae, Colour Sergeant "Chalky" White, unidentified, Stuart McTaggart, Sergeant John Lilly, unidentified, Lance Corporal Hulme (?), Lance Corporal Ricky Pascoe, Colin MacNally, "Robin", Piper Stevie Bennett, Lance Sergeant Robertson, Lance Corporal Macdougall, Guardsman Graham Boyd, Guardsman Scholes, Guardsman Luke Law, Guardsman McLachlan, Guardsman Danny Ferry, Guardsman Donald MacLennan, Guardsman Gavin Macalpine, Captain Gwynne (Quartermaster Technical - it is his birthday). Warrior vehicle "Dunbar" is in the background.
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03:19:05 Interview with Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Nickerson, Commanding Officer of the Scots Guards; he discusses various topics including the role of the Guards (including stopping the feud between two tribes in Basra) and the naming of the armoured vehicles (Warrior vehicle "Cour" is in the background).
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03:22:27 Group message from the battalion, sat on Warrior vehicles. Individual New Year messages from Lance Corporal Scotty Small, Lance Corporal Neil Hulme, Guardsman Graham Boyd, Guardsman Ryan Sinclair, Guardsman Donald MacLennan, Guardsman Laidlaw; all are sat on "Cour". There are several retakes.
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03:19:05 TIMECODE RESETS. Happy New Year message from the group on "Cour".
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03:20:30 Landscape outside Basra (?) taken from top cover on a moving Land Rover; there is an oil installation on the distant horizon giving off smoke. Close-ups of guardsman with machine gun providing top cover; also shots of the road behind the vehicle. Patrol passes pools of water in the sand.
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