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Title:SCENES IN 1ST CORPS' SECTOR OF 2ND ARMY'S BEACH-HEAD IN NORMANDY (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 46-2
Other titles:
Summary: 1st Corps' front north of Caen settles down to a 'static' routine.
Description: A PIAT team from the 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles is seen in position in a foxhole by the roadside at Cambes; further up the road, a sentry occupies a slit trench. At a regimental aid post established in a farmhouse, two Royal Army Medical Corps men load field medical stores into a jeep fitted to carry stretchers, get in and drive away to an advanced dressing station. A Royal Engineers bulldozer is seen at work during the construction of the Douvres-la-Délivrande bypass. Airborne stretcher bearers load a casualty into the back of an ambulance at a 6th Airborne RAP sited in a requisitioned château near Ranville in the Orne bridgehead. Medical personnel dash to and fro in the forecourt of the building whose facade is covered by a Red Cross flag. Men serving with the 5th Battalion The Black Watch's mortar platoon dig two (?) emplacements in an orchard near Bréville. An NCO (?) uses a surveyor's instrument to line up a mortar pit in the direction of the German lines. Three men assemble a 3-inch mortar from its component parts.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Connolly, J R (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Div, Airborne, 6 (regiment/service)
British Army, Ulster Rifles, Royal, 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, Black Watch, 5th Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: engineering, military, British: road building (object name)
engineering, military, British: mortar pit (object name)
medical, British military - emergency: regimental aid post (object name)
medical, British military - movement: ambulance (object name)
casualties, British wounded - battlefield (object name)
weapons, British - projector [AT]: PIAT (object name)
weapons, British - mortar: 3-inch mortar (object name)
Second World War, North West Europe & Operation Overlord & 13/6/1944 (event)
Cambes-en-Plaine, Calvados, France (geography)
Ranville, Calvados, France (geography)
Bréville, Calvados, France (geography)