Description: I. Accompanied by French Red Cross workers, refugees, local leaders, an RAF officer and members of his own CMP detachment, General Sir Bernard Montgomery, 21st Army Group commander, emerges from St Etienne in conversation with an RAC (?) captain. Watched by, among others, three small children, Montgomery drives away in his Humber staff car. A crowd gathers around the entrance to St Etienne (Abbaye aux Hommes) as food supplies for the hundreds of refugees staying there are unloaded (?).
II. In St Contest, three men enter the grounds of the village church; 110th Field Regiment RA jeep is seen parked in the left foreground while a Loyd carrier from the 2/5th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers' anti-tank platoon motors into view. The cameraman surveys the extent of the damage done to the church's fabric by artillery, mortar fire and PIAT rounds aimed at a sniper concealed therein shortly after St Contest was captured.
III. Red Cross workers and an elderly, neatly-dressed man pick their way over mounds of rubble near the centre of Caen. One of the Red Cross workers, a woman, is given a cigarette by a British sapper. A woman recovers clothing from a pile of rubble.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Wilkes, A E (Production individual)
