Title:SCENES ON 59TH (STAFFORDSHIRE) DIVISION'S SECTOR OF 30TH CORPS' FRONT [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 84-2
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Summary:
Description: Infantrymen serving with the 59th (Staffordshire) Division cycle into Brettevillette on a hot and dry summer's day as reinforcements for 177th Brigade; heading in the opposite direction are a signals carrier and a Bedford QL 3-ton lorry from the 116th Field Regiment RA. Despatch riders and Loyd carriers and six-pounder guns from an anti-tank platoon roll in the village. 25-pounder guns from the 110th Field Regiment RA are seen bombarding German positions opposite Brettevillette in an attempt to prevent 276th Infantry Division from infiltrating into the village. A Bedford QL 3-ton lorry arrives with crates of ammunition which are then stacked high around a gun emplacement ready for use. Muzzle flashes and dust kicked up by gun blast betray the presence of the 25-pounders which are otherwise concealed by full-length stalks of wheat.
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)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 59 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, British - carrier: Universal (object name)
armour, British - carrier: Loyd (object name)
weapons, British - gun [AT]: 57mm 6-pounder (object name)
weapons, - gun: 25-pounder field gun (object name)
transport, British military - truck: Bedford 3-ton 4x4 QL (object name)
01/5(4-16).2 [ Operation Pomegranate] (event)
Normandy, France (geography)
