COAST DEFENCES AT SUNDERLAND AND REDCAR [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: COAST DEFENCES AT SUNDERLAND AND REDCAR [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: AYY 28-2
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: 6-pounder gun firing from a camouflaged blockhouse. 1/3rd Medium Battery, 1st Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery at Henley Farm, Brotton, firing 60-pounders from cliff top. Exercises by 2/6th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, 59th Division 10th Corps exercising Alert. Barbed wire defences. Troops on foot, on cycles and in Bren carriers rushing to repel attack.
  • Description:
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: AYY 28-2
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Film: IWM (AYY 28-2)
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1940-07-31-1940-07-31
  • Production Country:GB
  • Production Details:War Office Film Unit (Production company) Rignold, Harry (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords:
  • Physical Characteristics:Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details:35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1600 ft; Running time: 17 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AYY 28-2

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