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.
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)
