page_title: Tiger Sarll
section_title: Film Career
hierarchical_section_title: Tiger Sarll / Film Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Capt Tiger Sarll at the Balkan War
context_page_description: Captain Thomas Henry William Bang-fee Sarll, known as Tiger Sarll, was an English Army Captain first enlisting with the South African Light Horse regiment in the Anglo-Boer War where he was wounded on three occasions and lost the sight in his left eye. He then went on to join Royal Canadian Dragoons where he travelled to Argentina and Mexico. After this excursion, he became a cameraman for Pathé, filming various battles from 1912 to 1914 including the Balkan War and the fighting in Belgium during WW1.
  Shortly after Tiger went on as a journalist to report on rebellion against the Spanish in Morocco. He then went on to catch pythons and alligators in Mexico for zoos and returned to England to start a circus act. During WW2 he acted as a firefighter. His biography, written by Godfrey Lias OBE, was published after an appearance on the TV programme This is Your Life, where he notably failed to recognise some of his grown-up offspring.
context_section_description: Sarll, after returning from Mexico, found a job as a cameraman for Warwick Film Company. He managed to film (unbeknownst to him) Emily Davison throwing herself under the King's horse in 1913. Sarll persuaded his employers, Pathé Gazette, to send him to Istanbul to film the Balkan War. Sarll teamed up with Sir Hubert Wilkins to capture pictures of the Battle of Lule Burgas. Narrowly avoiding execution at the hands of the Bulgars, Sarll had to bribe his captors with £400 in gold to let him go. Sarll returned to England in 1913.
caption: A picture of Capt Tiger Sarll in the Balkan War featured in the Bioscope
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