World War II: El Alamein veterans attend reunion

World War II: El Alamein veterans attend reunion; ENGLAND: London: South Bank: EXT / NIGHT Wide shot Royal Festival Hall / INT Couple ballroom dancing at reunion event / Men standing at bar / Groups of men and women chatting / Soldier interviewed SOF - ... our job was when the minefields had been cleared and the lads had actually gone through, we were going through with mobile infantry after the battle area had been cleared ... we were following up - I don't remember much about it except that it was ... - Only the barrage and the artillery boys know more about that than I do / Blind soldier interviewed SOF - Yes [was at Alamein when battle began] / I was bringing up new guns and new tanks, up to the line - 3rd RHA regiment - yes [blinded in Germany] Sergeant Major interviewed SOF - ... our job was to carry the tanks forward so they would be one hundred per cent for when they went into action - It went very well ... - 65465 [army number] / Soldier with dog interviewed SOF - ... she [the dog] was in the Battle of El Alamein, she was in all the major battles right the way through ... right up to Tunis in the initial landing at the invasion of Salerno, and on through Italy, the taking of Naples ... She was in Monte Cassino and so on, up to Ravenna with Popski's Private Army ... right through Germany - She has been to every one (reunion) / TX 20.10.56 / 10.45pm
World War II: El Alamein veterans attend reunion; ENGLAND: London: South Bank: EXT / NIGHT Wide shot Royal Festival Hall / INT Couple ballroom dancing at reunion event / Men standing at bar / Groups of men and women chatting / Soldier interviewed SOF - ... our job was when the minefields had been cleared and the lads had actually gone through, we were going through with mobile infantry after the battle area had been cleared ... we were following up - I don't remember much about it except that it was ... - Only the barrage and the artillery boys know more about that than I do / Blind soldier interviewed SOF - Yes [was at Alamein when battle began] / I was bringing up new guns and new tanks, up to the line - 3rd RHA regiment - yes [blinded in Germany] Sergeant Major interviewed SOF - ... our job was to carry the tanks forward so they would be one hundred per cent for when they went into action - It went very well ... - 65465 [army number] / Soldier with dog interviewed SOF - ... she [the dog] was in the Battle of El Alamein, she was in all the major battles right the way through ... right up to Tunis in the initial landing at the invasion of Salerno, and on through Italy, the taking of Naples ... She was in Monte Cassino and so on, up to Ravenna with Popski's Private Army ... right through Germany - She has been to every one (reunion) / TX 20.10.56 / 10.45pm
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October 20, 1956
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