THE 29TH ARMOURED BRIGADE MOVES UP THROUGH ST MARTIN DES BESACES [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: THE 29TH ARMOURED BRIGADE MOVES UP THROUGH ST MARTIN DES BESACES [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 107-3
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  • Summary: Armour and infantry from the 29th Armoured Brigade move up through the recently-captured cross-roads village of St Martin des Besaces, situated some ten miles south of Caumont astride the N175 highway, before heading in the direction of the Souleuvre valley.
  • Description: Loyd carriers and six-pounder guns from the 3rd Monmouth Regiment's anti-tank platoon and some of the battalion's infantry riding on tanks belonging to the 23rd Hussars enter St Martin des Besaces from the north. Riding in a Sherman tank which bears the markings of the 29th Armoured Brigade is Brigadier Roscoe Harvey, seen here wearing eye goggles and sitting half-out of the commander's hatch of his de-gunned tank. Outside St Martin, a British officer examines one of the many wooden dummy tanks found in 326th Infantry Division sector of the Front.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: A70 107-3
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-07-31
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Lawrie, William Fairlie1919-07-01Family origin: Glasgow, Scotland (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Harvey, Charles Barnet "Roscoe" (person) British Army, Corps 8 (regiment/service) British Army, Monmouth Regiment, 3rd Battalion (regiment/service) British Army, Hussars, 23 (regiment/service) British Army, Bde, Armoured, 29 Gp (regiment/service) British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: armour, British - carrier: Loyd (object name) weapons, British - gun [AT]: 57mm 6-pounder (object name) armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name) equipment, British military - decoy: dummy tank (object name) Operation Bluecoat, Mont Pinçon 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event) Saint Martin-des-Besaces, 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: 101 ft; Running time: 1 min
  • HD Media:Yes
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