Title:REINFORCEMENTS MOVE UP TO 8TH CORPS' FRONT SOUTH OF CAUMONT [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 113-12
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Summary:
Description: On the 31st July 1944, an M10 self-propelled gun rumbles through the cross-roads village of St Martin des Besaces past a derelict boutique whose balcony sports the naked top halfs of two female dummies. On the next day, August 1st, the rifle companies of the 3rd Battalion Irish Guards march in single file along the road from St Martin des Besaces overlooking the road towards Le Tourneur. Among the vehicles seen from a first floor window are a Morris Quad tractor towing a 17-pounder anti-tank gun and a Bedford 15cwt truck, all from the 21st Anti-Tank Regiment RA, and an Inns of Court Regiment "sawn-off" Daimler armoured car; heading in the opposite direction is a Humber III recce car from 8th Corps' HQ defence company. Tanks and armoured cars, trucks and despatch riders, and a lone civilian lorry with two men riding shot-gun race up and down a tree-lined section of the St Martin-Catheolles road near Les Houdant (?)
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Palmer, F A W (Production individual)
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Keywords: transport, British military - truck: Bedford 15cwt 4x2 (object name)
armour, British - armoured car: Staghound (object name)
armour, British - armoured car: Daimler (object name)
transport, British military - truck, special: Morris Quad 4x4 tractor (object name)
weapons, British - gun [AA]: 17-pounder gun (object name)
armour, British - armoured car: Humber III light reconnaissance car (object name)
Normandy, France (geography)
