Description: On a damp, misty morning, infantrymen from the 9th Battalion the Cameronians, accompanied by detachments from their own anti- tank platoon and transport echelon, the 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment's 'B' Company, M10 Achilles self-propelled guns from the 91st Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery and Churchill tanks from the 7th Royal Tank Regiment, file through sodden wheatfields to Le Mesnil-Patry (?) and advance in extended order towards Le Haut du Bosq, coming under sporadic sniper fire as they do so. The first Scottish casualties receive first-aid from Royal Army Medical Corps personnel. Young prisoners - some with injuries - from the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend and more Cameronian casualties trickle back into the Scottish lines. Cromwells belonging to the 11th Armoured Division's Tactical HQ troop and a Sherman OP tank from the 151st Field Regiment RA move up towards the front. A section Bren gunner takes up position in a slit- trench dug by one of his comrades in le Haut du Bosq (?). The 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders forms up to launch 227th Brigade's advance beyond Cheux. A 278th Field Company Royal Engineers sapper produces a German 3-kilogram magnetic hollow-charge mine; another engineer probes a roadside verge in Le Mesnil-Patry for mines.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Harris, L W J (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 15 (regiment/service)
British Army, Scottish Rifles, Cameronians, Bn 9 (regiment/service)
British Army, Middlesex Regiment, 1st Battalion, Coy B (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, AT Regiment 91 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, Field Regiment 151 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Tank Regiment (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps (regiment/service)
British Army, Gordon Highlanders, 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Engineers, Field Coy 278 (regiment/service)
German Waffen-SS & SS Panzer Div 12 (Hitlerjugend) (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman OP & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - SPG: M10 Achilles & [British] (object name)
armour, British - tank: Churchill (object name)
armour, British - tank: Cromwell (object name)
casualties, British wounded - battlefield (object name)
casualties, German wounded - battlefield (object name)
weapons, British - smallarm: Bren machine gun (object name)
weapons, German - passive: 3 kg magnetic hollow-charge mine (object name)
combat, British (object name)
operations, British military - mines: clearance (object name)
01/5(4-16).232 [ Operation Epsom] (event)
Le Mesnil-Patry, Calvados, France (geography)
Le Haut de Busq, Calvados, France (geography)
