Title:THE SECOND DAY OF THE SEINE CROSSING OPERATION AT VERNON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 136-9
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Summary: 129th Brigade's assault across the Seine comes under increasing German opposition during the second day of the operation.
Description: A detachment from the 8th Battalion Middlesex Regiment's 'A' company lays down harassing fire with its Vickers machine-gun on German positions on the north bank of the Seine from a building in Vernon overlooking the river. Four prisoners from the 49th Wehrmacht infantry division are brought into Vernon by their 1st Worcester Regiment captors. A soldier with a head wound is carried on a stretcher to a regimental aid post. Smoke shells from the 43rd Division's artillery burst on the limestone cliffs on the north bank of the Seine while sappers belonging to the 553 and 204 Field Companies RE attempt to complete their Class 9 Folding Boat bridge. A 1st Worcesters' infantryman aims his Bren gun at German positions across the Seine; engineers have temporarily abandoned working on the Class 9 bridge, now under machine gun and cannon fire, in the background. The Vickers machine gun team continues to fire across the river. Hit by mortar bombs, a house in Vernon is consumed by flames.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Ginger (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Worcestershire Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 43 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
British Army, Middlesex Regiment, 8th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde 214 (regiment/service)
Keywords: weapons, British - smallarm: Bren (object name)
weapons, British - smallarm: Vickers medium machine gun (object name)
engineering, military, British: Class 9 folding boat bridge (object name)
prisoners of war, German (object name)
operations, Allied military - movement: river crossing (object name)
medical, British - movement: stretcher (object name)
medical, British - emergency: regimental aid post (object name)
combat, British - artillery bombardment (object name)
buildings, French - residential: house & [wrecked] (object name)
Seine (River), France (geography)
Vernon, Eure, France (geography)
