Title:THE COMMANDER OF 12TH CORPS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 104-1
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Summary: For several months GOC 8th Army until his dismissal by General Auchinleck in June 1942, Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie serves in General Montgomery's 21st Army Group as a corps commander.
Description: I. Smoking a pipe, Ritchie emerges from his command caravan in the grounds of 12th Corps' HQ at Bretteville l'Orgueilleuse and climbs into a Humber utility staff car before leaving.
II. Ritchie lights his pipe. On emerging from his command caravan, he is joined by his chief of staff, Brigadier Thicknesse and together confer over a mapboard. The two men are joined by Ritchie's ADC, Lieutenant Bates (wearing Hussars tent cap). The corps commander is seen scanning the horizon through his binoculars.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Walter, Ernest Henry1919Family origin: Barry, Glamorgan, South Wales (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Bates (Lieutenant) (person)
Ritchie, Neil Methuen (person)
Thicknesse (Brigadier) (person)
British Army, Army Gp 21 (regiment/service)
Keywords: transport, British military - car: Humber staff car (object name)
12th Corps Headquarters, Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse, Calvados, France (geography)
