Title:DETACHMENTS FROM A FIELD ARTILLERY REGIMENT MOVE UP TO THE FRONT SOUTH OF MONT PINCON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 122-7
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Summary:
Description: Morris 17/25-pounder tractors tow the limbers and 25-pounder guns of an unidentified field artillery regiment (belonging to either 5th AGRA or the 43rd or 50th Divisions) along the road leading up to Mont Pincon from the village of Roucamps (?)
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Leatherbarrow, RichardPrior to the Second World War Leatherbarrow was a portrait photographer. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Armoured Corps, transferring to the Army Film and Photographic Unit in 1943, when he received training at Pinewood. He was one of the cameramen on Juno Beach during the D-Day Landings. (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
Keywords: transport, British military - prime mover: 17/25-pounder Morris 4x4 tractor (object name)
weapons, British - gun: 25-pounder field gun (object name)
Normandy, France (geography)