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British Colonel Archibald Percival Wavell and 2nd Battalion, Black Watch in Oppeln,Upper Silesia

Colonel Archibald Percival Wavell (Rt. Hon. Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell) Commander of the 2nd Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) is seen conversing with a Colonel of local German forces in Oppeln,Upper Silesia. (This is during the period when elements of the British Durham Light Infantry, the Black Watch and the 2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Leinsters, were serving, under the auspices of the Inter-Allied Commission of Government and plebiscite, as "peace keepers" to stop conflict between the Germans and Polish insurgents, in Upper Silesia.) Colonel Wavell is showing his counterpart a flexible spring mace, which the latter manipulates and examines. Behind them on a railroad siding are flat cars carrying Mark V tanks of Company B, 5th Battalion, British Tank Corps. Numbers: E18 and E17 appear on two tanks, respectively. Scene shifts to a checkpoint supported by soldiers of the Black Watch. A German officer checks credentials of a civilian leading a goat. He is permitted to pass and walks along smoking a pipe. A German lights the cigarette of a Black Watch soldier. German soldiers relax at edge of woods where they fly the Imperial flag of black, White, and red. A wagon load of German irregulars is pulled by a horse. They display the German flag. A team of horses pulls two caissons with irregulars riding on them.

Location: Oppeln Upper Silesia
Date: 1921
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065689
Headquarters of British delegates during the Malta Conference in Malta during World War II.

A preliminary meeting of U.S. and British staffs in Malta prior to the Yalta Conference during World War II. Castille, a government building being used as a British delegation's official headquarters. People milling about in the foreground. A car at the entrance as officers leave the building.

Location: Malta
Date: 1945, January 30
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065820
Extract from 1927 British feature film "The Somme," portraying events during the Battle of the Somme, in World War I

Scene from 1927 feature film about World War 1. British tank crosses a battlefield under fire. It is a Mk V tank with dummy guns fitted to simulate a fighting tank. British troops sheltering in a shell-hole recognize it as friendly and follow it towards enemy lines, where it rides over the parapet of a German trench and crushes a machine-gun position. (The tank is an anachronism; the Mark V did not enter service until 1918.)

Location: England United Kingdom
Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066063
Extract from British Feature film portraying events of World War I on the Western Front in 1916

Scene from British postwar film, circa 1927, shot on the Salisbury Plain, in England. It reconstructs World War 1 events from 1916 on the Western Front. Two "German soldiers" are shown in a machine gun nest. One is shot and slumps down. The other continues to fire as a British Mk V Supply Tank ( fitted with dummy guns to simulate a fighting tank) approaches their position. The tank rolls over their position, crushing it.

Location: England United Kingdom
Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066065
British airmen inspect wreckage of destroyed German aircraft at El Aouina Airport in Tunis, Tunisia during World War II.

Opening scene shows destroyed hangar skeleton containing parts of destroyed German aircraft at El Aouina Airport in Tunis, Tunisia during World War 2. A British airman examines the propeller from a destroyed German Me 323D Transport aircraft. A wing from the aircraft is in the background. He is joined by other British airmen. Together they walk to the wreck and examine the cockpit area. View of the airfield through skeleton of another destroyed German airplane. A Douglas A-20 Havoc aircraft and a B-17 Bomber are parked in the background.

Location: Tunis Tunisia
Date: 1943, June 8
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066356
U.S. and British officers arrive at Allied Air Terminal in Luqa for the Malta Conference in Malta, United Kingdom.

The Malta Conference in Malta, United Kingdom during World War II. U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall disembarking from an aircraft at Allied Air Terminal in Luqa. He salutes and is greeted by British Army Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson. Officials and military officers shaking hands and talking in the background. U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William Averell Harriman and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden talking and laughing. Several officers in the background. Foreign Secretary Eden walking away followed by an officer.

Location: Luqa Malta United Kingdom
Date: 1945, January 29
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066451
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