King's royal tour of North Africa and Malta includes official duties

Record ID: 247529

  • Title: King's royal tour of North Africa and Malta includes official duties
  • Date: 1st July 1943
  • Summary: Gaumont British Ident SLATE INFORMATION: Royal Tour of the Mediterranean: The King in Africa and Malta NORTH AFRICA: EXT MALTA: EXT AFRICA King visits 8th,Army & Malta(See George VI card) ALEXANDER GENERAL W.King & other Gens.in Africa BELLS Bell tower in Malta BOMBS Damage in Malta inspected by King BROADHURST A/V/M (MALTA) Meets King at African airfield King CAR
  • Embargoed: 16th July 1943 14:00
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  • Location: Unspecified
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  • Country: AFRICA Malta
  • Topics: Royalty,Defence / Military
  • Reuters ID: LVA4G333Q89S52DA57ZEO308D56I
  • Story Text: King George VI visits the cheering Eighth Army in North Africa, talks with the commanding officers, knights an Air Marshal at an RAF operational station, confers the Victoria Cross upon a Gurkha officer, talks to nurses and wounded at the general hospital, sleeps in a captured Italian caravan, flies over battlefields between Tripoli and Algiers, meets with generals, and takes a cruiser to newly peaceful Malta to see how the tiny island had suffered
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