Title:12TH CORPS ADVANCES TOWARDS THE MAAS NEAR GEERTRUIDENBERG (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 189-2
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Summary: The terrain of North Brabant imposes severe handicaps on the deployment of armoured formations.
Description: Accompanied by a motorcycle despatch rider, two universal carrier detachments from the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade's 'B' company cross a stream between Raamsdonck and Raamsdoncksveer over a Scissors bridge laid by a Valentine Bridgelayer on a bridge weakened by German demolition teams. Queuing up to cross the bridge can be seen a 7th Armoured Division road convoy, which includes two Cromwell tanks; their drivers step down from their vehicles to stretch their legs. A tank officer supervises the crossing made by two 5th RTR Cromwells (both armed with a 95mm close-support howitzer over the Scissors bridge. Sherman tanks belonging to the 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry leave their tank harbour outside Raamsdonck and motor through the town to rejoin the main body of the 51st (Highland) Division. The cameraman surveys at long range Geertruidenberg, a town situation on the west bank of the Wilhelmina Canal close to the River Maas; smoke from explosions created by German demolition teams rise over the town.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Walter, Ernest Henry1919Family origin: Barry, Glamorgan, South Wales (Production individual)
