Title:1ST CORPS FORMATIONS FIGHT FOR THE POSSESSION OF LISIEUX (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 131-1
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: A gunner serving with the 79th (Scottish Horse) Medium Regiment RA sets up a 'Tannoy' loudspeaker near his gun position, linking it to the battery command post. Here an officer receives target locations from an OP over a field-telephone, another gives firing orders down a 'Tannoy' microphone and the battery commander (?) plots target ranges on a map. A 5.5 inch gun team goes into action, firing their gun at extreme range. a 5/7th Gordon Highlanders rifle company files into Lisieux. Much of the town has been heavily bombed. On its eastern outskirts stands the Basilica of St Therese where German opposition is apparently centred. A platoon commander keeps in touch with his company headquarters over a No. 18 radio. A Bren gunner is given a glass of cider by a French woman while he is lying down aiming his gun at the Basilica. The platoon commander radios back while observing German positions. A 1st Royal Tank Regiment 'C' squadron Cromwell fires its Besa machine-gun. A pre-war route sign stands intact among debris. A despatch rider drives along a bombed-out street. Outside Lisieux, German prisoners are escorted past dead cattle.
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, Royal Tank Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 22 (regiment/service)
British Army, Gordon Highlanders, Bn 5/7 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde 153 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 1 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 7 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 51 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service)
Keywords: animals, mammals: cow [casualties] (object name)
combat, British - artillery bombardment (object name)
destruction, French military - area: bomb (object name)
communications, British military - direct: signalling (object name)
communications, British military - electronic: wireless, No 18 (object name)
communications, British military - wire: field telephone (object name)
prisoners of war, German - movement (object name)
society, French - friendship: fraternisation (object name)
signs, military and civilian (object name)
armour, British - tank: Cromwell (object name)
weapons, British - gun: 5.5-inch gun (object name)
Basilica of Saint Therese, Lisieux, Calvados, France (geography)
