Title:EARLY MORNING ATTACK BY GERMAN PATROL; RED CROSS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 323/1
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: An attack on F Battery, 12th (Honourable Artillery Company) Regiment T Troops, Royal Horse Artillery, near Bou Arada, Tunisia. A Red Cross station.
Description: (13 January ?) A burning British lorry. A 25 pounder gun and crew, waiting for the order to fire. The gun in action. The breech of the gun in action. Battery Commander Lieutenant Davis with his staff directs the fire of guns. Working in the mud. Sergeant Major Upplin helps to repair a bogged-down truck.
(14 January) Tanks and shell-fire on Two Tree Hill. Artillery shell bursts.
Close-up of a red cross. British wounded are helped from a farmhouse to an ambulance. Fusilier White on a stretcher. Lieutenant Shields directing the loading of the ambulance. The ambulance moves away. The dressing station, with mud in the foreground. Captain Smallwood sleeping after 48 hours of continuous work. The cookhouse.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Penman, D HBritish Army cameraman in WWII (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Artillery, Royal Horse Artillery, 12th Regiment, T Troop, F Battery (regiment/service)
British Red Cross Society (regiment/service)
Keywords: Bou Arada, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
