Title:1ST CORPS FORMATIONS FIGHT FOR THE POSSESSION OF LISIEUX (PART 3) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 131-3
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: Infantrymen from one of the 5/7th Battalion Gordon Highlanders rifle companies file along the N13 highway into Lisieux in the early afternoon of August 22nd. Small parties of men probe the ruins near the centre of the town for any remaining snipers; others survey the extent of the damage caused by an RAF bombing raid. The camera pans from three 144th RAC 'C' squadron Shermans parked in a debris-littered street to a part-demolished bridge (?) spanning the Touques river. The Gordons take up positions among the damaged houses and heaps of rubble facing the Basilica of St Therese on the eastern outskirts of Lisieux. A Cromwell tank from the 1st Royal Tank Regiment's 'C' squadron turns its coaxial Besa machine-gun onto German positions harassing the 5/7th Gordons. A 1st Rifle Brigade (?) rifleman playfully places a white rose in the hair of a coy young French girl while his unit waits to enter the western outskirts of Lisieux.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Smales, Edgar Hiram1920-08-071984-09-19 (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Gordon Highlanders, Bn 5/7 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde 153 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 33 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Tank Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 22 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 1 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 51 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Armoured Corps 144 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 7 (regiment/service)
Keywords: society, British military - friendship: fraternisation (object name)
destruction, French military - area: bomb (object name)
armour, British - tank: Cromwell (object name)
buildings, French - institutional: bridge & [damaged] (object name)
buildings, French - religious: Basilica of Saint Therese & [wrecked] (object name)
combat, British military (object name)
signs, military and civilian (object name)
N13 Highway, Lisieux, Calvados, France (geography)
Touques (River), Nord, France (geography)
