OPERATION EPSOM - 8TH CORPS' FORMATIONS IN ACTION (PART 9) [Allocated Title]

Infantry and armour on the move during Operation Epsom.

Infantry (43rd (Wessex) Division's 214th Brigade) ascend 'Hill 100' past two Stuart IIIs and a solitary 4th Armoured Brigade (?) Sherman. Three Hitlerjugend Panther tanks destroyed during a brief, sharp German counter-attack smoulder on the outskirts of Cheux. Two 5th Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry riflemen search thickly-overgrown countryside for snipers. Stretcher-bearers bring a casualty back for treatment. 227th Brigade traffic (2nd Battalion Glasgow Highlanders and 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment) encounters difficulties in mud outside Colleville, whose ruins and a high-banked lane on the way to Tourville add to its problems. Universal Carriers (9th Battalion Cameronians) cross the Caen - Villers-Bocage railway in Colleville at a level-crossing guarded by the 2nd Glasgow Highlanders. The 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders encounter a Catholic priest and refugees in Tourville (note the abandoned German field howitzer in the background) where an Argyll's 6- pounder gun crew covers another knocked-out Hitlerjugend Panther on the Caen - Villers-Bocage road. The 2nd Gordons relieve the Argylls in Tourville. The cameraman surveys the countryside around Cheux and its ruins. The Argylls leave Tourville for Tourmauville where its 'C' Company rests during a lull. An Argyll's Bren carrier crosses the Odon over a captured bridge.

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