INSPECTION OF 1ST BRITISH DIVISION BY GENERAL EISENHOWER [Allocated Title]

Various scenes of the inspection of the 1st Infantry Division near Hammamet, Tunisia by Major General Templer and General Eisenhower.

Panning shot over men and lorries carrying Bofors guns. Men of the 90th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, on parade. Men of the 81st Anti-Tank Regiment on parade. General view of massed infantry. Men of the Royal Artillery. Officers on a saluting base which is decorated with British, American and French flags. The Royal Engineers march past the saluting base, followed by the 2nd Field Regiment and the 67th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. General Eisenhower on the dias. The band of the Royal Artillery playing as various regiments march past. The 1st Battalion, Loyal Regiment march past. Close up of the 2nd Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment. Massed pipe bands and close up of drums. Close up of fingers playing pipes. Men of the 1st Duke of Wellington's Regiment at the wheeling point followed by the 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters; the 1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry; the 2nd and 7th Middlesex Regiment and the 1st Reconnaissance Regiment. Various shots of the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC), the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) and the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) passing the saluting base. The Royal Artillery band marching past the saluting base. Men and cars paraded. Major General Gerald Templer, the 1st Division Commander, drives his jeep into position. General Eisenhower arrives to take the salute. Panning shot down from the Union Jack to the General's car. General Eisenhower taking the salute. Close up of Major General Templer saluting Eisenhower. The massed bands of the Scottish regiments in the Division. Close up of one of the pipers. General view of the massed brass bands. General Eisenhower on the saluting base taking the salute as Divisional Artillery lead the march past. Various shots of men marching and cars and guns on parade.

35mm