Summary: Two-way traffic crosses the Seine over the two pontoon bridges spanning the 620-foot wide river at Vernon.
Description: Armour belonging to one of the 11th Armoured Division's four armoured regiments (the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment?) crosses the river on 7th Army Troops RE's Class 40 Bailey Bridge; signs at its entrance urges traffic to cross quickly and at proper intervals as the entire site of the river crossing is still under sporadic shellfire. An RAMC Austin ambulance and a group of Wehrmacht prisoners make the return journey to the south bank on the Class 9 Folding Boat bridge. A French family sits down to dinner in one of the many caves in the limestone cliffs overlooking Vernonnet where many of the local people have taken shelter in order to avoid the fighting.
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, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 43 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service)
Keywords: operations, Allied military - movement: river crossing (object name)
engineering, military, British: Class 40 Bailey bridge (object name)
prisoners of war (object name)
Refugees (object name)
transport, British military - amvulance: Austin K2 3-ton 4x2 ambulance (object name)
signs, military and civilian (object name)
society, British military - sustenance: cooking (object name)
Vernon, Eure, France (geography)
