Title:49TH (WEST RIDING) DIVISION'S UNITS TRAIN FOR THE INVASION OF EUROPE (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 13-1
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Summary:Scenes of units training for the invasion.
Description:A training cadre of NCOs drawn from 147th Brigade units performs PT exercises at Caister Castle (?): NCO's jump from two moving lorries and, watched by a bemused gardener, take up combat positions. The training cadre practises unarmed combat techniques in pairs on each other on the lawn of a country house. In a boatyard on the Norfolk Broads, five NCOs swim in full kit across thirty yards of water. Two non-swimmers unwrap a rifle, uniforms, boots etc from a ground sheet which served both to keep their kit dry and as a float to help them stay above water. Men from 757th Field Company Royal Engineers assemble a Bailey bridge and suspension crib in order to span a thirty-yard wide ditch outside Norwich. On completion, the bridge is 'christened' by the unit's own vehicles. Humber light reconnaissance cars and armoured cars from 49th Reconnaissance Regiment's 'C' Squadron travel to Dunwich in Suffolk to conduct firing trials on the seashore. A carrier-borne recce. team dismount and, covered by a 2-inch mortar team, set off to destroy a pillbox with a Bangalore torpedo. A Humber armoured car fires a 37mm round.
Production Details:Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production Company)
Watkins, R V (Production individual)
