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Title:TRANSPORT GOING UP THE LINE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 403/3
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The 1st Division, First Army in the Grenadier Hill area in Tunisia. Men of the 142 Royal Armoured Corps, Churchill tanks having a rest. Activity in Tunisia.
Description: 26 April. Transport moving up the line along Redcap Alley causing clouds of dust. A truck passes with boxes of ammunition in the foreground. Several trucks passing in the dust. Panning shot along a Bren carrier ending on a group of troopers around Lieutenant Paul, with a trooper having his hair cut in the background. Close-up of Trooper T Crompton from Ramsbottom, Lancashire cutting the hair of Trooper T Brown from Cirencester. Close-up of the head and shoulders of Trooper Crompton. The clippers at work on the head of Trooper Brown.
27 April. A Bofors gun moving up the line along Redcap Alley amid clouds of dust. Trooper Woods of the 142 Royal Armoured Corps climbing out of the scout car Albatross. He beats the dust off his battledress. Tanks of "A" Squadron, 142 Royal Armoured Corps moving up Redcap Alley to form a composite squadron at Crich El Oued. Dust being thrown up. A party of German prisoners being taken to the rear by Irish Guards. Churchill tanks in harbour ready to ward off an attack. An old knocked out American tank is in the foreground. Longstop Hill (Djebel Ahmera) is visible in the background. Panning shot of a British armoured car damaged by a mine and the mine crater. Royal Engineers of the 23rd Field Company at the side of the road searching with a Polish mine detector. Close-up of a Royal Engineer removing the detonator from a German mine. Long line of infantry moving up past a wrecked armoured car. Panning shot of a 25 pounder gun on a Valentine chassis moving off.
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, First Army (regiment/service)
British Army, 1st Division (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Armoured Corps, 142nd Regiment (regiment/service)
British Army, Irish Guards (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Engineers, 23rd Field Company (regiment/service)
German Army (Third Reich) (regiment/service)
Keywords: Djebel Ahmera, Tunisia (geography)
Crich El Oued, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)