Title:MEDICAL UNITS IN THE FIELD (PART 3) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 78-7
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Summary: Casualties from 231st Brigade's assault on Hottot receive emergency treatment at a Casualty Clearing Post (CCP) at Bucéels manned by 200th Field Ambulance RAMC.
Description: With a blood drip still strapped to him, a patient is carried out of the CCP's Resuscitation Tent and put aboard an Austin K2 ambulance for despatch to a field hospital. Another casualty is lifted out of a CMP utility ambulance to be carried into the Reception Tent where he will be examined. The rear doors of an Austin K2 ambulance are closed; it then drives away to reveal the Resuscitation Tent, a 'penthouse' erected around a Dodge 3-ton lorry with room for 12 patients. The cameraman surveys the site of the CCP where a large Red Cross panel pegged to the ground serves to ward off aerial attack. An Austin K2 ambulance arrives with more battlefield casualties. RAMC personnel and the CCP's padre watch another patient being carried out of the Reception Tent after preliminary treatment; he is then taken to the Evacuation Tent before being taken away for further treatment.
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)
