BATTLE SCHOOL [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: BATTLE SCHOOL [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: AYY 351/5
  • 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. Shooting at a moving target, hauling an anti-tank gun, a river crossing exercise and attacking an enemy pillbox.
  • Description: 1 and 2 March. A rifleman firing at a moving target. The target moving and disappearing from view as a hit is scored. Students hauling an anti-tank gun are cheered on by their fellow students. Student spectators laughing and cheering. The gun surrounded by officers and students. Captain Chapman, one of the instructors, tries out a reconnaissance boat on land. The assault boat before being erected. A party arrives and erects the boat. Captain French sets out in a reconnaissance boat with a supply of thunder flashes to give "under fire" effects. A party carrying an assault boat to the water and launching it. The assault boat under mortar fire. The assault party entering a smokescreen prior to landing. The assault party about to land. The final assault on the pillbox by infantry. The second wave of attack coming through a smokescreen. Firing a success signal with a Very pistol after the capture of the pillbox.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1943-03-01
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company) Cuthbert (Signalman) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, 54th Division, Battle Training School (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, UK (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 170 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • Notes: Further details on the Battle School and the regiments training are in the dope sheets.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AYY 351/5

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