THE KING VISITS ARMY UNITS PREPARING FOR THE INVASION OF EUROPE [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: THE KING VISITS ARMY UNITS PREPARING FOR THE INVASION OF EUROPE [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 12
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  • Summary: HM King George VI visits the 49th (West Riding) Division in East Anglia.
  • Description: The King is met at Beccles Station by a 1/4th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Guard of Honour. He and Major-General Barker, the divisional commander, watch the sappers of 294th Field Company Royal Engineers launch a Bailey bridge over a stream and inspect a water tower they have constructed with scaffolding. HM inspects troops from 147th Brigade (?) - the 1/6th and 1/7th Battalions Duke of Wellington's Regiment and the 11th Royal Scots Fusiliers - and the divisional services and, at another location, men serving with the 10th and 11th Battalions Durham Light Infantry. At Thetford Station, the King is welcomed by a guard of honour from the 1st Battalion Tyneside Scottish Regiment. At Fakenham (?) he inspects men from the 144th Battalion Royal Armoured Corps (?). In the grounds of Shadwell Court HM watches a Tyneside Scottish section at bayonet practice and inspects the battalion's carrier platoon and 6- and 17-pounder gun detachments from the 217th Anti-Tank Battery Royal Artillery before leaving in his Bentley.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: A70 12
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-05-27
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Flack, J P H (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: George VI, King (person) Barker, Evelyn Hugh (person) British Army, Div 49 (regiment/service) British Army, Bde 147 (?) (regiment/service) British Army, Yorkshire Light Infantry, King's Own, Bn 1/4 (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Engineers, Field Coy 294 (regiment/service) British Army, Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), 1/6 Battalion (regiment/service) British Army, Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), 1/7 Battalion (regiment/service) British Army, Scots Fusiliers, Royal, Bn 11 (regiment/service) British Army, Durham Light Infantry, 10th Battalion (regiment/service) British Army, Durham Light Infantry, 11th Battalion (regiment/service) British Army, Black Watch, Tyneside Scottish (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Armoured Corps (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Artillery, AT Regiment 55, Bty 217 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: delegations, British national - state: George VI visits 49th Division troops (object name) transport, British civilian - car: Bentley (object name) weapons, British - gun: 6-pounder gun (object name) weapons, British - gun: 17-pounder gun (object name) engineering, military, British: Bailey bridge building (object name) engineering, military, British: water tower (object name) GB, England & Beccles, Suffolk <railway station> (geography) GB, England & Thetford, Norfolk <railway station> (geography) Furnham, Somerset, England, UK (geography) GB, England & Shadwell, Norfolk <Shadwell Court> (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 394 ft; Running time: 4 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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