Title:ARMOUR AND MOTORISED INFANTRY MOVE UP TO THE ORNE BRIDGEHEAD FOR OPERATION 'GOODWOOD' [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 86-2
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Summary:
Description: Universal carriers belonging to the 1st Independent Machine-gun Company the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, a unit serving with the 32nd Guards Brigade, move up towards the Orne river crossings. Military policemen on traffic duty wave on a column of Loyd carriers and six-pounder anti-tank guns from the 1st Welsh Guards' support company. Following in their wake along a dust- shrouded track surrounded by ripening wheat are several Cromwell tanks from the 2nd Armoured Recce Battalion Welsh Guards 'C' squadron; in the background can be seen abandoned Horsa gliders, relics of 6th Airborne Division's successful D-Day aerial landings.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Wilkes, A E (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Military Police (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 8 (regiment/service)
British Army, Northumberland Fusiliers, Indian Coy 1 (regiment/service)
British Army, Welsh Guards, Armoured Recce 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Armoured Guards Division (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, British - tank: Cromwell (object name)
armour, British - carrier: Universal (object name)
armour, British - carrier: Loyd (object name)
01/5(4-16).233 [ Operation Goodwood] (event)
Normandy, France (geography)
