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Title:REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE INVASION OF NORMANDY (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 36-4
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: I. Transport belonging to 51st (Highland) Division units queues up along a quayside in the East India Docks before being hoisted aboard HM Liberty ship Samarovsk.
II. Men belonging to units serving with, or temporarily attached to, the Highland Division (notably the Black Watch, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in the first category and Second Army artillery in the second) climb aboard the Samarovsk and go below to their accommodation in the stern of the ship, after having their embarkation tags checked and torn off by a CMP checkpoint at the foot of the gangway.
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, Corps 1 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 51 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Military Police (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Sambut (regiment/service)
Keywords: operations, Allied military - preparation (object name)
religion, Christianity - military, British (object name)
ships, British auxiliary - cargo: Samarovsk (liberty ship) (object name)
ships, British auxiliary - cargo: Sambut (liberty ship) & [damaged] (object name)
ships, British naval - light forces: Fairmile B motor launch (object name)
Operation Overlord, Second World War (event)
GB, England & London, E <East India Docks> (geography)
Thames Estuary, Thames (River), England, UK (geography)