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Title:OPERATION EPSOM - SCENES ON THE EVE OF BATTLE (PART 3) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 58-10
Other titles:
Summary: The 11th Armoured Division awaits the commencement of Operation Epsom.
Description: At an 11th Armoured Division 'harbour' between Lantheuil and Cully, men serving with the various units attached to the Division's HQ queue up for and receive supper consisting of biscuits, a tin of sardines or bully beef and a mug of tea for each man. Having finished their supper, two Royal Tank Regiment troopers belonging to 11th Armoured Division's Tactical HQ troop remove tree branches placed around their Cromwell tank for concealment and, with the rest of the crew, set off for the Division's night-time concentration area prior to the commencement of Operation Epsom.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Leeson, W J (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Tank Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: society, British military - sustenance (object name)
armour, British - tank: Cromwell (object name)
operations, British military - movement: armour (object name)
01/5(4-16).232 [ Operation Epsom] (event)
Lantheuil, Calvados, France (geography)
Cully, Calvados, France (geography)