Title:SENIOR ALLIED OFFICERS LEAVE 21ST ARMY GROUP HQ AFTER A D- DAY CONFERENCE (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 27-3
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Summary: Additional coverage of senior British and Allied officers outside 21st Army Group's HQ near Portsmouth.
Description: I. Recognisable among the many British and Canadian Army officers and US liaison officers seen taking a 'breather' outside Southwick House are Brigadiers Duke and Mackillop, both in the Army Group HQ's Quartermaster-General's Department, and Major-General White, Chief Signals Officer (holding a cane under his left armpit), seen here walking past Major-General Dennis, senior Artillery commander, in conversation with Brigadier Williams, Montgomery's bespectacled, academic-looking Intelligence Chief, Lieutenant-Colonel Gannon, Deputy Military Secretary, and Major- General Inglis, Chief Engineer's Officer. Dennis is later seen in conversation with Gannon and a tall moustached staff officer. Brigadier Belchem, senior staff officer, (holding a file tray), is seen talking to Major-General White and then to Major-General de Guingand, 21st Army Group's Chief of Staff, flanked by Bill Williams and Major-General Miles Graham, Chief of Administration.
II. Admiral Ramsay accompanies General Eisenhower and his naval aide, Captain Harry Butcher, on the short walk from Southwick House to Ike's Chevrolet staff car.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Robinson, D (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Duke (Brigadier) (person)
Mackillop (Brigadier) (person)
White, Cecil Meadows Frith (person)
Dennis (Major-General) (person)
Williams, Bill (person)
Gannon, J R C (person)
Inglis, Drummond (person)
Belchem, Ronald Frederick King (person)
De Guingand, Francis W (person)
Graham, Miles W A P (person)
Ramsay, Bertram Home (person)
Eisenhower, Dwight David (person)
Butcher, Harry (person)
British Army, Army Gp 21 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Corps of Signals (regiment/service)
Royal Navy (regiment/service)
United States Army (regiment/service)
Canadian Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: administration, British - military (object name)
transport, United States military - car: Chevrolet staff car (object name)
buildings, British - military: Southwick House (object name)
Second World War, British Home Front & Operation Overlord & 6/6/1944 (event)
GB, England & Hants <Southwick House & 21st Army Group HQ> (geography)
