Summary: Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey, British Second Army commander, visits a divisional headquarters in the Netherlands.
Description: START 00:07:57 A short sequence showing Dempsey, accompanied by Major-General Allan Adair, commander of the Guards Armoured Division, and several staff officers stepping out of the Guards' divisional headquarters building in an unidentified Dutch town and climbing into the back of Adair's command caravan. The two senior commanders exit from the caravan and walk across a bare patch of ground past a 1-ton trailer unit, with Adair pointing the way to wherever next Dempsey wishes to go.
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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: Dempsey, Miles Christopher (person)
Adair, Allan Henry Shafto (person)
Keywords: Netherlands (geography)
Liberation of the Netherlands 1944-1945, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
North West Europe 1944-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
