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Object description
As part of a tour running to more than 30,000 miles and encompassing India, South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and East Africa, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff Lord Alanbrooke inspects the Boys Battalion at the 8th Punjab Regiment centre in Lahore, and awards medals to officers of the regiment.
Full description
Alan Brooke steps down from a Dakota, serial KG723, followed by General Sir Claude Auchinleck and is greeted by a British brigadier. He meets a number of British officers. Auchinleck and Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey (commander 14th Army) speaking to a major-general (same patch); a brigadier of GHQ India stands behind. Brooke and the major-general pass camera. They depart by car. At the 8th Punjab Regimental Centre; pan shows the Boys Company on parade. Brooke meets the cadet company commander (an Indian teenager) and inspects the company, along with a burly British officer, probably Colonel Alistair Scotland, commanding 10th Battalion 8th Punjab Regiment. Dempsey and others follow. March past of the Boys Company. Brooke walks to his car with the captain. Inspecting classrooms. Brook leaving the vocational training wing. Low angle of Brook apparently watching a training exercise; he wears a steel helmet. Medal ceremony; in the foreground a number of awards, and behind the waiting recipients. Brooke decorates a British major of 8th Punjab Regiment with an OBE (Alexander Agar Agar?). He decorates Major Girdhari Singh with an MC and Bar (the Bar can be seen on the medal ribbon). Presenting an MC. Presenting a neck order. Presenting another neck order; Brooke has a handkerchief protruding from his sleeve. March past. Band passes. Brooke meets British and Indian officers of the centre. Auchinleck speaks to Major Singh. Auchinleck speaks to a British officer. Auchinleck departing.
Physical description
35mm
