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Title:ATTACK BY 1ST BATTALION, EAST SURREY REGIMENT FROM DJEBEL EL OUATIAH TO TOUKABEUR [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 389/3/1
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment in Tunisia.
Description: A 3 inch mortar being fired. The mortar platoon sergeant receives fire orders by radio transmitter and gives the order. The tank "Revenge" of the Intelligence Officer of the 142nd Regiment Royal Armoured Corps moving along the crest of a hill. It locates an enemy strong point on the next ridge. The East Surrey Regiment move off in single file down to a gulley. The infantry crossing the gulley and spreading out. The infantry start to advance. A Bren carrier by the side of a mine hole with orderlies giving first aid to the crew. Infantry lying and crouching in front of enemy barbed wire. An officer and two other men cut the wire and the men go through the wire, under covering fire. Germans being ordered out of their trenches and marched to the rear. A 50mm anti-tank gun. A medical orderly from the East Surrey Regiment attending to an Austrian wounded in the leg. Close-up of a German magnetic anti-tank mine. The East Surrey Regiment in Austrian trenches. Another company of the East Surreys moves up for the second attack. Panning shot from the enemy machine gun pit. The infantry go over for the second attack. Mortar carriers moving down the slope, following the infantry. The tank of the Second-in-Command of the 142nd Regiment Royal Armoured Corps comes up to confer with the commander of the forward company of infantry. The infantry commander speaking to the Second-in-Command in the turret of the tank. German shell bursts on the side of Sugar Loaf Hill. Shell bursts near a stretcher party with a tank in the foreground. A flash of smoke from a burst shell blowing towards the camera against the light. A carrier unloading ammunition for the tanks. Close-up of empty Besa cartridge cases. Petrol for the tanks. Ammunition is passed down through the co-driver's hatch into the tank "Revenge". Besa ammunition is passed in through the side hatch of the tank "Repulse". Close-up of empty 6 pounder cases and Besa ammunition boxes being opened in the background. Two abandoned German infantry guns. Tanks moving along a dusty track.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Radford, John H. B. (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, East Surrey Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Armoured Corps, 142nd Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)