Title:30TH CORPS LIBERATES GACÉ DURING ITS DRIVE FOR THE SEINE (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 132-2
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Summary: 30th Corps advances through Gacé in the wake of the retreating German armies.
Description: Elements of the 11th Armoured Division in the form of infantrymen serving with the 1st Battalion Hereford Regiment riding in a Bedford QLT lorry and Universal carrier detachments from the 4th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry are greeted with flowers as they motor through Gacé the morning after its liberation by 159th Brigade Group. Outside the Préfecture, a large crowd gathers and joins the town mayor in singing the "Marseillaise". Lieutenant-Colonel Byron, the commanding officer of the 4/7th Dragoon Guards, makes his way through the throng carrying a bouquet of flowers.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Carpenter, L (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Herefordshire Light Infantry, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Shropshire Light Infantry, King's, 4th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde 159 Gp (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service)
British Army, Dragoon Guards, 4/7 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 8 (regiment/service)
Keywords: Liberation (object name)
armour, British - carrier: Universal (object name)
transport, British military - truck: Bedford 3-ton 4x4 QL (object name)
