Title:BRITISH TROOPS FOLLOW-UP BEHIND THE GERMANS' EASTWARD RETREAT FROM THE NORMANDY 'BOCAGE' [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 126-1
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Summary: During their advance eastwards along the N24 bis, the 3rd Reconnaissance Regiment and a detachment from the 17th Field Company RE. liberate the towns of Tinchebrai and Fiers.
Description: Leading elements of the Reconnaissance Regiment enter Tinchebrai, the site of two medieval battlefields but spared destruction in this war. Here two 3rd Division MPs meet up with their US counterparts from the 2nd US Division. Under their joint supervision, the rest of the 3rd Recce Regiment enter the town along the Rue de l'Industrie. During a pause in the traffic, French refugees and their heavily-laden waggons and bicycles make their way homewards past the group of Allied MPS. In the town a crowd of townspeople and local Resistance men fraternise with the crew of a Humber armoured car. 11 Kilometres to the east, a despatch motorcyclist rides into Fiers. A foot patrol accompanied by a scout car picks its way cautiously along the deserted Rue de la Banque where later the sapper detachment mixes with the remaining inhabitants and sets about searching for mines further down the street.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Grant, Ian James1917-04-16Family origin: Edinburgh, Scotland (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 3 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 8 (regiment/service)
United States Army (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Military Police (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, British - armoured car: Humber III light reconnaissance car (object name)
armour, United States - halftrack: M5 (object name)
armour, British - carrier: Universal (object name)
Refugees (object name)
armour, British - armoured car: Humber scout car (object name)
Liberation (object name)
society, French military - friendship (object name)
signs, military and civilian (object name)
Flers, Somme, France (geography)
Tinchebray, Orne, France (geography)
