49TH (WEST RIDING) DIVISION IN ACTION ON 30TH CORPS' FRONT PRIOR TO OPERATION EPSOM (PART 3) [Allocated Title]

49th (West Riding) Division's field artillery helps keep pressure on the German front-line east of Tilly-sur-Seulles while the 50th (Northumbrian) Division occupies the village.

I. At Ducy-Ste-Marguerite, a 25-pounder gun detachment from 'D' Troop in 185th Field Regiment Royal Artillery's 386 Battery (?) bombards targets on 49th Division's front in the vicinity of Tilly-sur-Seulles; note another Army Film and Photographic Unit cameraman recording the action. The lance-bombardier in charge gives firing orders down a loud hailer. Used shell cases are cleared from between the gun trails and put into a wooden crate.

II. A knocked-out Panzer Lehr Division Panther Ausf A tank lies outside Tilly-sur-Seulles. A large crater (possibly the result of naval bombardment) lies next to a ruined farmhouse. The mutilated corpse of a German soldier is found in a roadside ditch. At the crossroads in Tilly, sappers from a 50th Division Royal Engineers unit search for mines and booby traps near a wrecked Universal Carrier. A man (British or German) killed by a booby trap lies on the road nearby. A sign on one of the buildings at the crossroads gives the distances to other towns in Calvados, notably Bayeux, Villers-Bocage and Falaise.

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