Title:WITH BRITISH TROOPS IN BRUSSELS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 150-11
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Summary: Scenes in Brussels and on the road leading to the city.
Description: I. Troops serving with the 1st Belgian Brigade and the 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment receive a tumultuous reception from the citizens of Brussels. An enterprising photographer attracts a crowd by displaying pictures of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin (not discernible) on his boarded-up shop front.
II. On the road leading to the city, armoured fighting vehicles belonging to the 2nd Armoured Recce Battalion Welsh Guards and the 2nd Household Cavalry race past a Wehrmacht Ford lorry, one of the many German vehicles overtaken and destroyed during the advance. In Brussels, the Belgian fire brigade tackles the fire at the Palais de Justice. Books and documents salvaged from the flames are stacked on the pavements.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Lawrie, William Fairlie1919-07-01Family origin: Glasgow, Scotland (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Belgian Army, Belgian Bde 1 (regiment/service)
British Army, Welsh Guards, Armoured Recce 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Household Cavalry, Regiment 2 (regiment/service)
British Army, Guards Armoured Division (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
British Army, Guards Bde Gp 32 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - tank: M3 Stuart VI (object name)
armour, British - armoured car: Daimler (object name)
armour, British - tank: Cromwell (object name)
armour, British - armoured car: Daimler scout car (object name)
celebrations, Belgian - liberation: Brussels (object name)
transport, German military - truck: wrecked (object name)
armour, United States - halftrack: M5 (object name)
society, Belgian - precautionary: firefighting (object name)
Palais de Justice, Brussels, Brabant, Belgium (geography)
