Title:15TH (SCOTTISH) DIVISION ADVANCES WITH 12TH CORPS' TO THE LOWER SEINE (PART 4) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 140-6
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Summary: An unsuccessful attempt is made by the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders to cross the Seine near Le Mesnil-Ande on August 27th 1944.
Description: Shells fired by 227th Brigade's supporting artillery fall on German positions in open fields around Le Mesnil-Ande; a little further downstream are the remains of a railway bridge over the river which was probably destroyed by Allied bombing before D- Day. From high ground on the south bank, a 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment Vickers machine-gun team fires on German positions across the river. A section from the Gordon Highlanders' 'D' company waits its turn to board a storm boat in among bushes on the south bank; with grim expressions, the infantrymen set off towards the river's edge. Casualties are taken away for treatment on an ambulance jeep. Tracer shot wings its way from a 40th LAA Regiment RA Bofors gun to German positions along the north bank of the Seine as dusk falls. Next day, an Austin K5 three-tonner and a 4th Brigade HQ Weasel amphibious carrier move up towards the river.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Gordon, J (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Gordon Highlanders, 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde 227 (regiment/service)
British Army, Middlesex Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 15 (regiment/service)
British Army, Armoured Bde 4 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 12 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - amphibious: M29C Weasel (object name)
weapons, British - smallarm: Vickers medium machine gun (object name)
operations, Allied military - movement: river crossing (object name)
transport, United States military - utility: jeep (object name)
combat, British - artillery bombardment (object name)
Seine (River), France (geography)
