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Headquarters; and seeing
the Russ -
dered.
6
During the making of a flm, The Third Man, which was
set in Allied-occupied Vienna after World War II and starred
Orson Wells and Trevor Howard, Howard was arrested by a
British member of the patrol for impersonating an offcer.
The assistant director Guy Hamilton and the continuity as-
sistant Angela Allen teamed up to describe what it was like
to flm in the Vienna sewers and to explain how a drunk
Trevor Howard was arrested for impersonating a British of-
fcer while still in costume as the sober Major Calloway.
Due to an international agreement, the International Pa-
trol ceased to exist on 14 September 1955, when all Allied
armies left Austria.
Acknowledgement: I am deeply indebted to former
Lance Corporal Brian Chammings, Royal Military Police,
and Mr. Phil Holden, whose father was a British member of
the patrol, for the documents and photographs they provid-
ed in researching this story. It was Holden's father, Ernest
Holden, who detained actor Trevor Howard for imperson-
ating an offcer during the flming of the movie The Third
Man.
Endnotes:
1
Cameron et al., "A Reporter in Vienna," The New
Yorker, 6 March 2948, p. 61, ,
accessed on 2 June 2015.
2
"786th Military Police Battalion," , accessed on 8 June 2015.
3
Major George Denis Pillitz, "Inter-Allied Command in
Vienna," 105th Journal, Spring 2014.
4
"796th Military Police Battalion: Vienna Command," ,
accessed on 12 June 2015.
5
Ibid.
6
105th Journal, Winter 2010, pp. 6–7.
Carol Reed, director, The Third Man, British Lion Films,
2 September 1949.
Master Sergeant Garland retired the U.S. 1974.
During his career, he served in units
and laboratories. At
the of his Master Sergeant Garland was serving
as a ballistics evidence specialist at the European Laboratory.
He in this career feld until retiring civilian law
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