Title:THE 49TH (WEST RIDING) DIVISION GOES INTO ACTION NORTH OF THE ANTWERP-TURNHOUT CANAL (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 171-6
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Summary: Assisted by a Canadian tank regiment, the 49th (West Riding) Division consolidates its hold on its bridgehead on the north bank of the Antwerp-Turnhout Canal.
Description: Detachments from the 49th Reconnaissance Regiment, in the form of a Humber III light reconnaissance car and a Humber IV armoured car, follow a Sherman tank from the 27th Armoured (Sherbrooke Fusiliers) Regiment across the main square in Rijkevorsel which is strewn with debris from the previous day's fighting in the village. An NCO from the 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment (?) and two armed volunteers from L'Armee Blanche (Belgian resistance movement) escort seven German POWs to battalion HQ: among the prisoners are several Luftwaffe troops from 51st Flieger Regiment (?). The corpses of German infantrymen killed in a counter- attack launched the previous day by 719th Infantry Division lie at the edge of a field before positions occupied by the Essex Regiment's 'A' company on the eastern fringes of Rijkevorsel.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Crocker, C (Production individual)
