Title:ARMOUR CROSSES THE ALBERT CANAL INTO 30TH CORPS' BRIDGEHEAD AT BEERINGEN (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 154-1
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Summary: The scene of the breach made by the Guards Armoured Division in the German 1st Parachute Army's Albert Canal line.
Description: Elements of the 8th Armoured Brigade in the form of a Stuart III light tank and Sherman and Firefly tanks from the 4/7th Dragoon Guards' 'HQ' and 'B' squadrons cross the Albert Canal at Beeringen over a German wooden trestle bridge (captured two days earlier by the 32nd Guards Brigade Group) under the supervision of a lance-corporal 'Redcap' from a 30th Corps CMP detachment.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Leatherbarrow, RichardPrior to the Second World War Leatherbarrow was a portrait photographer. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Armoured Corps, transferring to the Army Film and Photographic Unit in 1943, when he received training at Pinewood. He was one of the cameramen on Juno Beach during the D-Day Landings. (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Dragoon Guards, 4/7 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 8 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Military Police (regiment/service)
Royal Netherlands Army & Royal Netherlands Bde (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - tank: M3 Stuart III (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Firefly & [British] (object name)
engineering, military, German: wooden trestle bridge & [captured] (object name)
Netherlands & Beeringen (geography)
Netherlands & Albert Canal (geography)
