Title:THE GUARDS ARMOURED DIVISION CHARGES INTO BRUSSELS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 150-7
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: A 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment (?) Daimler scout car and motorcyclists and a jeep from the 1st Welsh Guards' HQ overtake German transport intercepted and destroyed by tanks and armoured cars spearheading 30th Corps' lightening drive on Brussels. The 1st Welsh Guards encounters yet more burning German vehicles shoved onto the side of the main road to the Belgian capital. A 2-inch mortar team opens fire on a party of Germans holding out near the highway. In Brussels, tank crews from the 2nd Armoured Battalion Welsh Guards receive an enthusiastic welcome from its people as soon as they - the first Allied soldiers to do so - entered the city.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Ginger (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Household Cavalry, Regiment 2 (regiment/service)
British Army, Welsh Guards, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Guards Armoured Division (regiment/service)
British Army, Welsh Guards, Armoured Recce 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Guards Bde Gp 32 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, British - armoured car: Daimler scout car (object name)
armour, British - tank: Cromwell (object name)
transport, British military - truck: Bedford 3-ton 4x4 QL (object name)
transport, British military - truck: Bedford 15cwt 4x2 (object name)
celebrations, Belgian liberation: Brussels (object name)
weapons, - mortar: 2-inch mortar (object name)
transport, German military: [wrecked] (object name)
Brussels, Brabant, Belgium (geography)
