Title:THE BRITISH 2ND ARMY COMMENCES ITS ADVANCE FROM THE SEINE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 144-6
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Summary: Elements of 11th Armoured Division's 29th Armoured Brigade by-pass Gournay-en-Cray during 30th Corps' rapid advance towards Amiens and the Somme river crossings.
Description: A mixed battlegroup consisting of armour belonging to the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, self-propelled guns from the 75th Anti-Tank Regiment RA and motorised infantry belonging to the 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade's 'F' company travels across country between Martigny and Senantes. En route they encounter stragglers from the retreating German armies, namely two abandoned draught horses, one of which is lying dead on the road, and a Krupp light truck the leading tanks have destroyed together with its driver whose corpse lies nearby.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Laws, George E J1916-02-15 (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Yeomanry, Fife and Forfar, 2 (regiment/service)
British Army, Rifle Brigade, 8th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 29 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - SPG: M10 Achilles (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Firefly & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M3 Stuart V (object name)
armour, United States - halftrack: M5 (object name)
transport, United States military - utility: jeep (object name)
armour, German - tank: Krupp 6x4 light tank (object name)
animals, mammals: horse & [casualties] (object name)
casualties, German dead - battlefield (object name)
Gournay-en-Bray, Seine-Maritime, France (geography)
