Title:30TH CORPS ADVANCES BEYOND THE ALBERT CANAL TOWARDS THE DUTCH FRONTIER (PART 3) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 156-2
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Summary: The heterogeneous composition of the German 1st Parachute Army as indicated by the prisoners taken by 30th Corps reflects the ad hoc and strenuous efforts made by the Germans to stave off 2nd Army's advance towards southern Holland.
Description: Curious and excited Belgian civilians watch a column of Luftwaffe (Fallschirmjäger) troops from the 'Grassmehl Kampfgruppe' (?) taken prisoner near Helchteren march into Heusden with 11th Armoured division and L'Armee Blanche escorts. Prisoners awaiting transportation to the nearest POW cage sit down by the roadside, disconsolate at their capture, and are put aboard a lorry. A young Luftwaffe private suffering from shock and pain has a bullet or shrapnel wound in his left shoulder bandaged by an 11th Armoured Division RAMC captain and orderly shortly after his capture.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Grant, Ian James1917-04-16Family origin: Edinburgh, Scotland (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Bde, Armoured, 29 Gp (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
Keywords: prisoners of war (object name)
casualties, German wounded (object name)
medical, British military - emergency: field dressing (object name)
