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Title:OPERATION EPSOM - 49th DIVISION AT THE VILLAGE OF FONTENAY- LE-PESNEL (PART 4) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 60-7
Other titles:
Summary: British troops enjoy a hot shower behind 49th (West Riding) Division's sector of the front line.
Description: Troops who have just had a hot shower dry themselves with towels, get dressed and cut their toenails in a farmyard in the village of Fontenay-le-Pesnel during a brief period out of the line following the capture of the Rauray spur. Men pour buckets of water into a large tank heated by a wood fire from where the shower water is drawn. Naked men scrub themselves clean in showers set up in the lee of a farmhouse.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Ginger (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Div 49 (regiment/service)
British Army, Durham Light Infantry, Bn 10 (?) (regiment/service)
Keywords: society, British military - hygiene (object name)
01/5(4-16).232 [ Operation Epsom] (event)
Fontenay-le-Pesnel, Calvados, France (geography)