Title:PREPARATIONS FOR D-DAY NEAR THE INVASION EMBARKATION PORTS IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND (PART 4) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 19-4
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: I. The camera examines a sign indicating the camp reception for Z.19 transit camp and an attached Red Cross station pointing towards a picturesque manor house on Southampton Common. A War Department notice forbids the public access to the camp. Within the perimeter empty tents await the arrival of the first assault troops. Men from the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers distribute palliasses among the tents, dig slit-trenches and line them with earth-filled sandbags and erect a Dannaert wire fence along the camp perimeter.
II. At Totton, Hampshire County Council workmen pour cement, sand and gravel into the hopper of a concrete mixer while cement bags are off-loaded from a lorry in the background. Two labourers level off a section of concrete during road widening work.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Leeson, W J (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Irish Fusiliers, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
United States Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: buildings, British - military: Z.19 transit camp (object name)
engineering, civilian, British: road widening (object name)
engineering, military, British: camp building (object name)
operations, Allied military - routine: erecting wire fence (object name)
operations, British military - preparation: D-Day (object name)
society, British military - domestic: Z.19 transit camp (object name)
GB, England & Hants <B3055 Beaulieu-Brockenhurst road> (geography)
GB, England & Hants <New Forest> (geography)
GB, England & Southampton, Hants <Southampton Common> (geography)
GB, England & Southampton, Hants <Z.19 transit camp> (geography)
