Title:15TH (SCOTTISH) DIVISION MOVES UP TO THE FRONT EAST OF LE BENY-BOCAGE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 113-1
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Summary:The 7th Battalion Seaforth moves up from Le Beny-Bocage to Catheolles before marching to Les Haies to relieve the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers.
Description:The Seaforths' rifle companies march in single file along a shady stretch of the road from Le Beny-Bocage to Catheolles (?) as lorries, scout cars, jeeps and lone Welsh Guards (?) Cromwell tank rush past. In the village of Catheolles (?) its inhabitants, sheltering indoors in the midday heat, peer round doorways and windows at the cameraman. A Military Policeman directs a 2nd Grenadier Guards Sherman sporting a 'dozer' attachment onto a dirt road outside Catheolles which is followed in turn by three half-track ambulances from the battalion's RAMC. The Seaforth Highlanders take a rest from the dust and heat at a farmyard outside Catheolles. At a road junction nearby, a column of M10 self-propelled guns, half-tracks, scout-cars, despatch riders and trucks take the road leading out of the Souleuvre valley towards St Charles de Percy. A 1st Middlesex carrier makes the return journey to Catheolles. 15th Division (?) half-tracks and universal carriers rumble through the Souleuvre valley over the bridge at Catheolles.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:A70 113-1
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Film: IWM (A70 113-1)
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1944-08-04-1944-08-04
Production Country:GB
Production Details:Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Palmer, Frederick A.W. (Production individual)
