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Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Men of the Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, East Yorkshire and RAF Regiments along with some Czechs, Belgians and Fighting French at the Battle Training School, Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
Description: 15 February. A rifleman scanning the distance for the enemy. A man gives covering fire to his comrades as they run across an open road. A section in single file advancing down a dried up river bed. A scout calls up another scout and tells him the situation of the enemy position. Men going over the top for an assault on the enemy. A section double down a lane to rejoin their platoon after mopping up the enemy. Men of the 2nd Hertfordshire Regiment double down the road to the training area to be taught the easiest way of getting through dannet wire. Three men prepare to go through the wire. The men struggling through the middle of the wire. Two men emerging from the other side of the wire. The third man tries to free himself.
16 February. Men climb over a barbed wire barricade and drop into a trench. A section advances through the smoke of a charge. The section runs forward and crawls through a table of barbed wire three feet high. Men crawling through the barbed wire and mud. One man is covered in mud from head to toe. A section fights its way through barbed wire then climbs a twenty foot barricade of sandbags. One man with a rope around his waist enters the water followed by others. The men swim or pull themselves across the river. One man is helped across with a long pole.
17 February. Men on the Leadership II course emerge from a smokescreen in a quarry and climb the sides. Two men come over the top of the quarry and fling themselves on the ground. Men charge at a stream but cannot clear it in one jump. Men entangled in wire in the middle of the stream. Two men lay on the ground waiting for the others after crossing the stream. A section leader leads his men in a bayonet charge. Men charge as an explosive charge bursts near them. Men crossing a muddy stream. Two men help to pull another out of the stream.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Laight, E (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, 54th Division (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, RAF Regiment (regiment/service)
British Army, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (regiment/service)
British Army, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (regiment/service)
British Army, East Yorkshire Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, UK (geography)