Title:BRITISH TROOPS CROSS THE WAAL AT NIJMEGEN [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 165-2
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Summary: Additional coverage of Sergeant Ginger's material showing 30th Corps armour and infantry crossing the Waal at Nijmegen.
Description: A low-angle shot shows two Guards (?) officers conferring by their jeep, with a scout car in the background, on the road bridge's southern approaches. Four 2nd Irish Guards Sherman and Firefly tanks drive past Huner Park towards the Waal. A 21st Anti-Tank Regiment RA detachment guards the southern approaches with a 17-pounder gun; officers walk over to the gun position to inspect a captured Hotchkiss machine-gun as Irish Guards armour disappears into the mist covering the bridge. The camera pans from Nijmegen's railway bridge to 2nd Welsh Guards Cromwells moving across the Waal past a wrecked German bus and sappers (?) standing by their vehicles on the south bank. Dutch civilians examine abandoned German kit and clothing etc on the edge of Huner Park. The Welsh Guards group's armour and lorried infantry queue up on the road alongside the park to cross the Waal. As seen from the Walkof(?) above Huner Park, three 153rd Field Regiment RA 'Sextons' move across the massive road bridge towards the "Island".
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Leatherbarrow, RichardPrior to the Second World War Leatherbarrow was a portrait photographer. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Armoured Corps, transferring to the Army Film and Photographic Unit in 1943, when he received training at Pinewood. He was one of the cameramen on Juno Beach during the D-Day Landings. (Production individual)
