OPERATION EPSOM - 8TH CORPS' FORMATIONS IN ACTION (PART 12) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: OPERATION EPSOM - 8TH CORPS' FORMATIONS IN ACTION (PART 12) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 60-2
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  • Summary: Elements of the 31st Armoured and 44th Infantry Brigades participate in an operation designed to secure the 'Scottish Corridor's' western flank.
  • Description: At La Gaule, Lieutenant-Colonels Delacombe and Gaisford (officers commanding 8th Battalion Royal Scots and 7th Royal Tank Regiment respectively) hold an 'O' group with Major Taylor, a 131st Field Regiment Royal Artillery battery commander, on a Churchill 6-pounder gun tank during the afternoon of 28th June 1944. Nearby, the Royal Scots march along the Caen - Fontenay-le-Pesnel road to their startlines past an RTR 'HQ' Squadron Humber scout car; visible along the roadside are Loyd Carriers from the Royal Scots' anti-tank platoon. The 7th RTR and the Royal Scots advance south-eastwards towards the Château de Grainville across undulating wheatfields and then through meadows, copses and hedgerows masking their objective. (2) 25-pounder gun detachments ('E' troop, 531 Battery, 181st Field Regiment RA) are seen in action at Le Mesnil-Patry in support of the 7th Seaforth Highlanders. Crates containing high explosive rounds are unloaded from an Austin K5 lorry and stacked nearby. A gun crew has lunch and goes into action. (3) A 'B' Squadron Churchill breaks through a hedgerow, followed by three cautious riflemen. Infantrymen advance warily towards their objective through waist-high wheat.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-06-28
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Harris, L W J (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Delacombe, R (person) Gaisford, George (person) Taylor (Major) (person) British Army, Bde, Tank, 31 (regiment/service) British Army, Bde, Infantry, 44 (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Tank Regiment, 7th Battalion (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Scots, 8th Battalion (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Artillery, Field Regiment 131 (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Artillery, Field Regiment 181, Bty 531 (regiment/service) British Army, Seaforth Highlanders, 7th Battalion (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: armour, British - tank: Churchill Mark III (object name) armour, British - armoured car: Humber scout car (object name) armour, British - carrier: Loyd (object name) weapons, British - gun: 25-pounder gun (object name) transport, British military - truck: Austin K5 truck (object name) intelligence, military, British - briefing: 'O' group (object name) operations, British military - movement: march (object name) combat, British - artillery bombardment (object name) society, British military - sustenance (object name) supplies, British, movement [FA] - munitions: high explosive rounds (object name) buildings, French - historic: Château de Grainville (object name) 01/5(4-16).232 [ Operation Epsom] (event) La Gaule, France (geography) Le Mesnil-Patry, Calvados, France (geography) Grainville-sur-Odon, Calvados, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 198 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • Notes: Production: this footage should have been assembled thus:- part (2), part (1), part (3) Summary: on the following day, 44th Brigade's positions around the Château de Grainville were subject to fierce counter-attacks by the 9th SS Panzer Division in a general German attack on the 'Scottish Corridor' Remarks: good action footage
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    A70 60-2

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