Title:A CROSS-CANAL ASSAULT BY THE 51ST (HIGHLAND) DIVISION WEST OF S'HERTOGENBOSCH (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 190-3
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Summary: Additional coverage of the assault made by the 5th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders across the Afwaterings Canal near Drunen in the late afternoon of November 4 1944.
Please note: this film was shot at dusk in very poor light.
Description: At Klinkaert, the Churchill Crocodile from the 141st RAC's 'A' squadron fires its 75mm gun at German positions beyond the north bank of the Afwaterings Canal; the burning roof of a 'flamed' lock-house (?)can be seen on the dyke lining the north bank of the canal. An NCO (?) from the Seaforth Highlanders' 'A' company watches two of his men armed with a sten-gun and Bren-gun fire their weapons into the air as a diversionary tactic (?). A building on the Drunesche Dyke(?) set on fire by artillery supporting 152nd Brigade burns brightly in fields beyond the north bank of the canal: small fires started by flaming oil fired from a Churchill Crocodile onto German positions in a wood plantation extending all the way down to the northern edge of the Afwaterings Canal glitter in the darkness.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Gross, A C (Production individual)
