REFUGEES ON THE ROADS OF NORMANDY IN 1ST CORPS' SECTOR OF 1ST CANADIAN ARMY'S FRONT [Allocated Title]

Refugees compete for space along narrow roads leading away from the fighting and military traffic heading in the opposite direction towards Livarot.

Having been evacuated from their homes in St Julien-le- Faucen, small groups of civilians make their way to safe areas along a road in use by units of the 51st (Highland) Division. Four prisoners from the Wehrmacht 272nd Infantry Division are searched for concealed weapons and documents by two military policemen. More refugees wheeling bicycles and hand-carts loaded up with their belongings head towards safety as a Bedford QLB tractor with a Bofors 40mm gun squeezes by in the opposite direction. Two British soldiers talk to members of a refugee family who have stopped to take a rest from the heat in the shade offered by a roadside orchard. A young couple and their two young children wait for the traffic to pass by before moving on.

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