INCIDENTS DURING 11TH ARMOURED DIVISION'S ADVANCE FROM FLERS TO BRIOUZE [Allocated Title]

Outside Flers, the 1st Battalion Hereford Regiment stops off at a farmyard where its members mix with French refugee families living there. French and British alike cook and sit down to eat breakfast. During 159th Infantry Brigade Group's advance towards Briouze, two men from the battalion read one of many RAF leaflets addressed to German soldiers urging them to surrender. Typhoon fighter-bombers fly eight (?) thousand feet above the N24 bis on their way to attack German transport fleeing eastwards from the Falaise 'pocket'. The cameraman records the progress made by the 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry's 'C' squadron, together with the 1st Herefords and 11th Armoured Division engineers along a stretch of the N24 bis near the crossroads at Landigou. Tank crews from both the Northamptonshire Yeomanry and the 3rd RTR and men from the 4th KSLI fraternise with local farmers and their families while assembling for an attack on Ste Opportune. An FFI cyclist brings in some German stragglers in among a procession of refugees making their way homewards under the supervision of an 11th Division line-patrol.

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