Title:TANKS OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE YEOMANRY AND THE LOTHIAN AND BORDER HORSE ACCOMPANY 3RD DIVISION INFANTRY INTO ACTION [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 85-1
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Summary: Armour from two tank regiments transports part of 3rd British Division's 185th Brigade into action during 1st Corps' push towards the Caen-Troarn railway from the Orne bridgehead.
Description: Troops serving with the 2nd Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry's leading company board Sherman gun-tanks and flails belonging to the Staffordshire Yeomanry's 'C' squadron and the 1st Lothian and Border Horse's 'B' squadron and receive last- minute instructions before leaving their assembly point between Herouvillette and Escoville. Infantry on foot and engineering detachments accompany the tanks from the two regiments as they file through Escoville. A armoured bulldozer clears trees felled by the Germans on the road leading southwards from Escoville. As the armour-infantry force nears Lirose, its first objective, ranging shots from German artillery burst overhead. The first German prisoners are brought in. The second wave, consisting of tank-borne infantry and numerous RAMC teams in half-tracks, moves up to the front under the supervision of military police on traffic duty; an ex-French Hotchkiss tank used by 3rd Division's REME as an ARV is seen near a traffic-control point.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Wilkes, A E (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Corps 1 (regiment/service)
British Army, Lothians and Border Horse, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 79 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 30 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 27 (regiment/service)
British Army, Shropshire Light Infantry, King's, 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 3 (regiment/service)
British Army, Yeomanry, Staffordshire (regiment/service)
British Army, Infantry Bde 185 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Crab & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Firefly & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - halftrack: M5 (object name)
armour, French - funnies: Char H39/40 ARV (object name)
transport, - engineering: bulldozer (object name)
signs, military and civilian (object name)
01/5(4-16).233 [ Operation Goodwood] (event)
Normandy, France (geography)
