Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Training at the 54th Division Battle Training School at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Assault range exercise, a competition in the handling of a 6 pounder anti-tank gun and an opposed river crossing exercise at Thorpeness.
Description: 1 and 2 March. Riflemen firing at a moving target. The moving target. A student walking along the trench holding a target above the parapet. Students with the anti-tank gun. The gun and crew starting on the exercise. The gun crew pulling the gun up an incline. The gun crew returning to the starting point. Students cheering their team. The demonstration crew of the 148 Battery, 92nd Anti-Tank Regiment carrying out the loading drill for the students. Lieutenant Scaife of the Gordon Highlanders answering questions put to him by the students. A man's hand adjusting a valve in a rubber boat. Close up of a man's foot pumping the bellows to inflate the rubber boat. The rubber boat ready for service. A man running for cover towards the assault boats. A man erecting a rubber boat. Men carrying the assault boat to the river. Men launching the assault boat and pulling away. The assault boat crossing the river. Officers Captain Chapman and Captain French watching operations from the rubber boat. Men launching the assault boat with covering fire from the infantry. Men landing from the assault boat. Men carrying the assault boat after the landing. The rubber boat being carried ashore. Men dismantling the assault boat.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Palmer, S (Lance-Bombardier) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, 54th Division, Battle Training School (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, 92nd Anti-Tank Regiment, 148 Battery (regiment/service)
British Army, Gordon Highlanders (regiment/service)
Keywords: Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, UK (geography)
Thorpeness, Suffolk, England, UK (geography)
