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Title:BRITISH INFANTRY AND ARMOURED UNITS IN ACTION EAST OF VIRE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 123-6
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: A four-man FOP detachment from the 1st Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers and the 3rd Recce. Regiment scan 'no-mans-land' for a Tiger tank alleged to be in the vicinity of Veissoix in 3rd Division's sector of 8th Corps' front. A Bren gunner and a rifleman (both wearing camouflage netting over their heads) lie in wait for any Germans venturing into their sector of the front line. A 1st KOSB private digs a deep slit-trench for shelter against mortar bombs and on completion of his task emerges, exhausted and covered in sweat, for a drink of water. Churchill Mark VI tanks from one of the 6th Guards Tank Brigade's three armoured regiments (the 3rd Tank Battalion Scots Guards?) make their way slowly along a cleared lane through a suspected minefield near Chênedollé.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Laws, George E J1916-02-15 (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, King's Own Scottish Borderers, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde 9 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 3 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 8 (regiment/service)
British Army, Guards Tank Bde 6 (regiment/service)
Keywords: weapons, British - smallarm: Lee-Enfield .303 rifle (object name)
weapons, British - smallarm: Bren (object name)
armour, British - tank: Churchill Mark VI (object name)
defences, British - emplacement: slit-trench (object name)
operations, Allied military - preparation: digging in (object name)
Normandy, France (geography)