Title:ENEMY EVACUATE KSAR MEZOUAR - WE ADVANCE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 391/2/1
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The 10th Brigade, 4th Division advance at Ksar Mezouar (Qasr Mezouar).
Description: A Churchill tank firing 6 pounder high explosive in a practice shoot at Sidi Mimech. Knocked out German Mark IV tanks. A German Mark IV tank with a Bren carrier in the background. Smoke from a blown up German tank in the background. A knocked out German Mark IV Tiger tank. Royal Engineers blowing up German tanks on the road. Sappers laying a line to blow up tanks. Knocked out German tanks. Panning shot from a 25 pounder shell hole to a knocked out German Mark VI tank with the turret blown off. Men of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry march through a tank graveyard. Wire tow ropes being attached to the remains of a German tank which was blocking the road by men of the 10th Infantry Brigade Workshops, Royal Mechanical and Electrical Engineers. Two men of the REME remove a machine gun turret from the road. Turret ruins being removed with wooden stakes. Military police putting up "Danger" sign. Mines on the edge of the road and the remains of a German Mark IV tank being towed off the road. Shell holes on German tanks. Brigadier J H Hogshaw of the Eighth Army passing on his jeep. The graveyard of German tanks. Knocked out German armoured cars. Close-up of a German Panzer trooper trapped under a turret. Various shots of the DCLI around the tank graveyard. A smashed up armoured car with a Mark IV tank in the background. Infantry advancing on the road to Mateur. Close-up of the DCLI advancing. A First Aid party with the infantry column. Scammells of the REME moving up to remove German tanks. 6 pounders and 25 pounders moving up from Ksar Mezouar. A Royal Artillery truck and motorcycle moving up with guns. A 6 pounder and 17 pounder moving up.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Courtney (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Hogshaw, John Harold (person)
British Army, 10th Brigade (regiment/service)
British Army, 4th Division (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
British Army, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (regiment/service)
Keywords: Sidi Mimech, Tunisia (geography)
Qasr Mezouar, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
