Title:A FERRY SERVICE ACROSS THE SEINE AT DUCLAIR (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 212-5
Other titles:LIBERATION CELEBRATIONS AT DOUDEVILLE (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Summary: Two sequences.
Description: An RE officer in charge of 276th Field Company RE's ferrying operations and Brigadier Manners-Smith, CRA 1st Corps, watch proceedings on the south bank of the Seine. Two Class 9 close-support rafts are seen in service, one ferrying troops from the 1st Belgian Independent Brigade across the 300 yard wide river to Duclair, the other returning to the south bank with civilian passengers on board; a French (?) commando from No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando (With a Thompson sub-machine gun on his back) waits impatiently for the southbound ferry to reach the shore. A Bedford MWC water truck belonging to No 48 (Royal Marine) Commando is driven onto the Class 9 raft; Royal Engineers drag a stormboat up the river bank. Filming on board a stormboat ferrying Belgian troops, the cameraman watches two sappers on the north bank walking down a slipway to meet them, the ramps of a Class 9 raft are lowered to allow another water- truck from No. 4 SS Brigade HQ to land at Duclair. (2) Flames lick at an effigy of Hitler hanging from a gallows in the centre of Doudeville while civilians and British troops dance around the fire.
Alternative Title:LIBERATION CELEBRATIONS AT DOUDEVILLE (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Stiggins (Sergeant) (Production individual)
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Keywords: Seine (River), France (geography)
Duclair, Seine-Maritime, France (geography)
Doudeville, Seine-Maritime, France (geography)
