Title:MACHINE-GUNS IN ACTION ON 43RD (WESSEX) DIVISION'S FRONT NEAR HILL 112 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 94-6
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Summary:
Description: Men serving with No. 10 Platoon Battalion in 'C' Company of 43rd (Wessex) Division's heavy mortar and machine-gun unit, the 8th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, are seen stripping and cleaning their Vickers machine-guns during a brief lull in the fighting. After a brief conference with the company commander, the captain in charge of the platoon calls the gunners to action stations. From the shelter of covered dugouts the platoon fires its machine-guns along fixed sights of the German front-line just beyond Maltot.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Watkins, R V (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Middlesex Regiment, 8th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 43 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 12 (regiment/service)
British Army, Middlesex Regiment, 8th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 43 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 12 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, British - carrier: Universal (object name)
weapons, British - smallarm: Vickers medium machine gun (object name)
Normandy, France (geography)
