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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

1797

Title

ANNUAL TRAINING. 1933. RAMSEY. I.O.M.

Producer

Lt. Col. James Fitzwilliam O'Grady

Date

1933-34

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

silent

Running Time

16 mins 04 secs

Description

Officers and men of the Manchester Brigade Royal Army Medical Corps are seen at their annual training camp in Ramsey on the Isle of Man in 1933. They disembark from the ship and march to the camp. Includes some informal shots of the men larking about, watching the TT racing and enduring a very rough crossing on the way home. Concludes with footage of stretcher bearers doing exercises at a camp in Holyhead and the Brigade participating in a ceremonial march, past Colonel Blatherwick in 1934.

 

 



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