Title:30TH CORPS ADVANCES BEYOND THE ALBERT CANAL TOWARDS THE DUTCH BORDER (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 155-10
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Summary: The Guards Armoured division bypasses Bourg Leopold and Hechtel in its drive northwards to seize a crossing over the Meuse-Escaut Canal.
Description:Sexton 25-pounder SPGs and M5 half-track battery commanders' vehicles make their way across heath country; elements of the 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment and the 5th Battalion Coldstream Guards - an AEC armoured car (hardly visible), a White scout car, a Daimler armoured car, a DR (despatch rider) and a Bedford QLT troop-carrying lorry - make a similar journey. Two Cromwell tanks ("Sir Gawain" and "Sir Lamiel") and a Humber scout car ("Nelson") from the division's TAC HQ troop and a Humber scout car from the Household Cavalry's RHQ motor along a road (Bourg Leopold-Hechtel?) past Shermans (1st Armoured Battalion Coldstream Guards?) deployed nearby. Near Helchteren, a column of Fallschirmjäger prisoners are escorted into captivity by troops from the 3rd RTR (?) and the 3rd Battalion Monmouth Regiment (?) past a Sherman from the tank regiment's 'B' squadron.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:A70 155-10
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Film: IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1944-09-10-1944-09-10
Production Country:GB
Production Details:Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production Company)
Parkinson, H. (Production individual)
