Title:15TH (SCOTTISH) DIVISION COMMENCES ITS DRIVE ON TILBURG DURING 12TH CORPS' OPERATION PHEASANT [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 183-16
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Summary: Armour from the 6th Guards Tank Brigade moves up to join the 15th (Scottish) Division which despatches one of its units to reconnoitre its line of advance on Tilburg.
Description: Their hulls and turrets clad with spare track links as protection against hollow-shell and armour piercing rounds, Churchill tanks belonging to a squadron in the 4th Tank Battalion Grenadier Guards move up towards the Eindhoven- Boxtel/Best-St Oedenrode cross-roads to join up with 44th Brigade. Two universal carrier detachments from the 9th Battalion the Cameronians travel through the town of Best past the remains of a destroyed German road convoy (including a German Ford lorry) lying on the roadside verges. The officer in charge of a 15th Recce. Regiment squadron directs the passage of the 9th Cameronians through Oirschot, a village seven kilometres west of Best; carrier detachments belonging to the Cameronians file through the village watched by a handful of Dutch civilians.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Johnson, John Norman1909 (Production individual)
