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Title: TERRITORIAL ARMY 278th FIELD REGIMENT EVENTS

Reference number: 9353

Date: 1953 - 1958

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15.44 mins

Description: Compilation of amateur footage of activities and events of the 278th Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery (T.A.) in the 1950s.

For other titles in this collection see also refs. 9348, 9349, 9350, 9351 and 9352

Note: This film was previously allocated title ANNUAL CAMP 1957 but as this only relates to first few minutes of film, current title updated by cataloguer, January 2024.

Shotlist: [COL] title - c/u three star plate on vehicle - gvs of 278th Field Regiment annual camp at Redesdale, Northumberland - huts, artillery units, officers on visit, talking to men - field guns being fired - tea being served to soldiers from field truck (1.44) THE BAND OF 357 LIGHT REGT. R.A. T.A. - brass band playing outside huts - gvs esplanade at Edinburgh Castle at time of military tattoo, small crowd watching, regiment in battle dress line up in front of artillery tractors and field guns - officers come out to inspect troops, including General Collingwood for presentation of scroll giving authority to fire royal salutes - after ceremony, troops get into vehicles and drive past to salute party of officers - gvs soldiers and families at castle after ceremony (5.29) gvs Territorial Army jubilee parade at Holyrood Park, 1958 - royal limousine arrives - crowds wave as Queen and Prince Philip in open Land Rover are taken to inspect troops - regiments march past crowds and grandstand, field artillery trucks drive past - c/u shots signs, 278 Lowland Field Regiment R.A. (T.A.), 1st City of Edinburgh Field Battery R.A. (T.A.), 2nd City of Edinburgh Field Battery R.A. (T.A.), Midlothian Field Battery R.A. (T.A.) (6.42) WEEK-END CAMP AT GOSFORD LONGNIDDRY - TA soldier surveying, Gosford House in distance - gvs officer and soldiers at camp, training with field guns (7.33) ROYAL SALUTE 2 JUNE 1953 - brief BW shots of Edinburgh Castle - gvs field guns being fired from ramparts of castle (8.42) [BW] (8.46) OUR DAMP CAMP AT REDESDALE NORTHUMBERLAND - gvs field artillery tractors driving across yard - VISITORS' DAY - gvs family sports day at camp, betting odds being chalked on board, three-legged race, c/u shots children, tug-of-war, King's Own Scottish Borderers pipe band playing, children's races, prizes being presented (10.24) shots on moorland, truck stuck in bog, being pulled out by artillery tractors and heavy winch truck - gvs artillery firing exercises on moor - gun barrel being cleaned - gvs at camp after exercise, maintenance and inspection of guns - brief shot of pay being handed out (12.44) [COL] gvs officers and men at camp, posing for camera, motorcycle riders depart escorting column of vehicles (14.17) [BW] brief shot of officer at desk - gvs motorcycle trials at Dundonald, Ayrshire, motorcyclists from 278 Regiment competing over rough ground, one rider falls off into ditch - award ceremony - brief ext shot of 278 Regiment headquarters office in Edinburgh (15.34) [COL] brief c/u shots 278 Regiment flag flying - THE END (15.44)