Title:30TH CORPS ADVANCES BEYOND THE ALBERT CANAL TOWARDS THE DUTCH FRONTIER (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 156-1
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Summary: 30th Corps formations encounter stubborn resistance from units of the German 1st Parachute Army delaying 2nd Army's northward advance from the Albert Canal towards southern Holland.
Description: Detachments from the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment and infantry belonging to the 3rd Battalion Monmouth Regiment, riding a section apiece on each Sherman and Firefly tank, patrol heath and woodland during 159th Infantry Brigade's advance from the Albert Canal to Helchteren via Achten den Kraanberg and Laak. A group of over a hundred prisoners of war taken from ad hoc battlegroups composed of Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger troops is assembled before being sent to the rear; thirty are packed aboard a 29th Armoured Brigade (?) lorry while the rest are sent back on foot to the nearest POW cage. Amused Belgian villagers watch a straggler from the procession (?), a young Luftwaffe 'Gefreiter', being hustled along the road by an incongruously diminutive member of the Belgian resistance armed with a Mauser Kar 98K rifle.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Jones, H J [Army cameraman] (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Belgian Army, White Army (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Tank Regiment, 3rd Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Monmouth Regiment, 3rd Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Infantry, 159 (regiment/service)
Keywords: prisoners of war (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Firefly & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman ARV & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
