Title:COMMANDOS AND CANADIAN TROOPS IN ACTION ON D-DAY (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 37-2
Other titles:
Summary: 4th Special Service Brigade goes into action alongside the 8th Canadian Brigade against German seaside strongpoints.
Description: I. LCI(S)s carrying commandos serving with 4th Special Service Brigade steam into Southampton Water past several Empire class troopships from Force 'S' anchored in the background. Sailors and men from the Commando Brigade's headquarters eat their tinned rations on board their invasion craft.
II. Commandos belonging to Brigade HQ dig themselves in at the edge of a declared German minefield on the outskirts of Langrune-sur-Mer. A commando hands in a message to a signaller for him to transmit on his handcart-mounted radio set. Brigadier Leicester, the Brigade commander, and his two escorts rejoin Brigade HQ where he confers with his Brigade Major. Two Army photographers, Sergeant R Leatherbarrow and Lieutenant Peter Handford, meet a French family. Canadian troops serving with the North Shore Regiment and the Fort Garry Horse's 'C' Squadron are seen in possession of St Aubin-sur-Mer, where pioneers attached to the Commando Brigade come ashore from an LCI(S) on 'Nan Red' Beach. Men from the two Canadian regiments take a rest; note the destroyed log anti-tank barrier in the background. Prisoners from the 736 Grenadier Regiment's 9th Company are brought in for interrogation.
Attached Media - A70 37-1, A70 37-2 and A70 37-3
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Walter, Ernest Henry1919Family origin: Barry, Glamorgan, South Wales (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Leicester, B W (person)
Leatherbarrow, Richard (person)
Handford, Peter (person)
Royal Navy (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Special Service, 4 (regiment/service)
British Army, Army Film and Photographic Unit (regiment/service)
Canadian Army, Canadian Bde 8 (regiment/service)
Canadian Army, North Shore (New Brunswick) Regt (regiment/service)
Canadian Army, Regt, Armoured, 10 [The Fort Garry Horse], Sqdn C (regiment/service)
German Army, Grenadier Regt 736, Coy 9 (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - amphibious: LCI (S) (object name)
ships, British naval - transport: Empire class troopship (object name)
operations, British military - movement: ship (object name)
operations, Canadian military - movement: ship (object name)
communications, British military - electronic: wireless, handcart-mounted (object name)
society, British military - sustenance (object name)
society, French - friendship (object name)
defences, German - emplacement: log anti-tank barrier & [wrecked] (object name)
prisoners of war, German - reception (object name)
12/5(261.22).7 [ Operation Neptune] (event)
GB, England & Southampton, Hants <Southampton Water> (geography)
Langrune-sur-Mer, Calvados, France (geography)
Nan Red Beach, Juno Beach, Calvados, France (geography)
Saint Aubin-sur-Mer, Calvados, France (geography)
