Description: Three 13th Royal Horse Artillery Sexton self-propelled guns travel over potato plots and harvested wheatfields in open country between Doullens and Aubigny. In Aubigny itself, townspeople turn out to greet their 11th Armoured Division liberators. Several bemused Wehrmacht prisoners sitting on the front bonnet of an 8th Rifle Brigade (?) M5 half-track watch civilians gather round the vehicle to chat to its crew and to chalk slogans on its sides. Near Cambligneul, a village some 14 kilometres to the north-west of Arras, a pre-war sign points the way to Servins and Béthune. A Canadian military-pattern 30 cwt truck, a Sherman tank and a Sherman ARV are silhouetted against a darkening sky (filled with rain clouds) as they roll along a country road towards Lens.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Laws, George E J1916-02-15 (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Corps of Royal Military Police (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 29 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, British - SPG: Sexton 25-pounder (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman ARV & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - halftrack: M5 & [British] (object name)
transport, Canadian military - truck: CMP truck (object name)
prisoners of war (object name)
Liberation (object name)
weapons, British - smallarm: Browning .50 cal machine gun (object name)
