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Members of 1st Battalion the Scots Guards (1 SG) are reunited with their families after returning from a six month tour of Iraq as part of the Divisional Role in support of MND(SE).
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START 01:00:00 Bars and tone.
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01:00:30 RAF airliner carrying the Guards arrives at night at Hanover Airport; piper plays as troops disembark and get onto airfield bus for journey to terminal
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01:06:00 Troops unload their kit (Bergen backpacks etc) from pallets into waiting lorries. (Many of them are swearing.) Sky is lighter as morning approaches. Paperwork is checked.
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01:08:14 Families await the arrival of the returnees in the rain (at Oxford Barracks in Münster ?). Two young children hold up a welcome banner. Second banner on wall reads "Welcome Home to All Our Daddys Love Mums and Tots". Small girl with umbrella. Group of soldiers stands nearby.
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01:10:04 Banner "WELCOME BACK 1 SCOTS GUARDS BATTLEGROUP". Pipes and drums as the returning soldiers march through the gates in formation. Families follow them.
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01:13:19 Troops fan out on parade square and stand to attention until dismissed; they then rejoin their families. Small boy runs up to greet his father. Families are reunited.
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01:15:56 Interview with the Ross family: Sergeant Ross, Deborah, Hayley and (mum) Tracy Ross.
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01:16:35 Interview with Daniel Wilson and his wife Andrea (with their baby son).
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01:17:31 Interview with Lance Corporal Claire Burton and son Ben Burton.
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01:18:21 Interview with WO2 Tony Mason, holding baby ("the wee man") and son Jonathan.
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01:19:24 Interview with Lieutenant Colonel Harry Nickerson, CO 1st Battalion the Scots Guards about the tour including support during the election period.
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01:21:35 Soldiers and families in reception area during disembarkation: soldiers line up to be processes. Scenes of families in canteen.
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01:27:07 Interview with Lance Sergeant Kevin Trainor, his wife Julie and their two children Fay and John.
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01:28:13 Interview with Sergeant Chris Miley, his wife Fiona, and children Alex, Simon and Tony.
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01:30:25 soldiers and families leave barracks.
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01:31:26 Close-ups of banner, and 1 SG sign.
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