Title:THE 7TH ARMOURED DIVISION SPEARHEADS 1ST CORPS' EASTWARD ADVANCE FROM THE NORMANDY BEACH-HEAD (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 128-6
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Summary: Incidents during 1st Corps' advance towards Livarot and Lisieux.
Description: Flames lick the gutted interior of farm buildings (?) set on fire by mortar bombs (?) as armour belonging to the 8th Hussars crosses an intact bridge over the Dives river north of St Pierre-sur-Dives. The tracks of Sherman OP tanks belonging to the 3rd RHA (?) pound the road as they roll past the burning buildings. A seventeen year old member of the 272nd Wehrmacht Infantry Division is given a lift in a 1/6th Queen's jeep to battalion headquarters for interrogation. An MP from a 21st Army field security detachment examines the papers of French civilians in St Pierre-sur-Dives. On the outskirts of the town, an army padre conducts a burial service for a member of the 131st (Queens) Brigade killed in action the previous day; a Stuart V tank and a Chevrolet heavy utility ambulance roll along the road in the background. Sherman tanks from the 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry's 'B' squadron take the N811 road out of St Pierre, watched by some of its townspeople standing near a wayside calvary.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Connolly, J R (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Hussars, 8 (regiment/service)
British Army, Queen's Regiment, Bn 1/6 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde 131 Gp (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 7 (regiment/service)
British Army, Yeomanry, Northamptonshire, 1 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 33 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 1 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Military Police (regiment/service)
Keywords: prisoners of war (object name)
transport, United States military - utility: jeep (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman OP & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M3 Stuart V (object name)
ceremonies, Allied - event-related: funeral (object name)
Normandy, France (geography)
