Title:A MACHINE-GUN PLATOON IN ACTION ON 43RD (WESSEX) DIVISION'S SECTOR OF THE FRONT NEAR HILL 112 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 94-7
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Summary: Additional coverage of the 8th Battalion Middlesex Regiment's 'C' Company in action with the 43rd (Wessex) Division.
Description: Gunners serving with the company's No. 10 Platoon are seen dismantling a Vickers medium machine-gun, cleaning its components and re-assembling them before returning the gun to its mounting on a universal carrier. The platoon is called to action stations; each Vickers team checks ammunition belts and gun-sights before laying down defensive fire on German positions outside Maltot. A sergeant has orders relayed to him over a field telephone from the platoon commander who in turn receives his orders via battalion HQ from 43rd (Wessex) Division's headquarters.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Gross, A C (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)
Keywords: weapons, British - smallarm: Vickers medium machine gun (object name)
armour, British - carrier: Universal (object name)
Normandy, France (geography)
