30TH CORPS ADVANCES EASTWARDS IN PURSUIT OF THE GERMAN ARMIES [Allocated Title]

Lieutenant-General Horrocks, 30th Corps Commander, leaves 11th Armoured Division's headquarters outside Gacé after a conference and chats briefly to two young French boys. In the town of Gacé itself, armoured cars from the Inns of Court's 'B' squadron nose their way through its narrow and cramped streets before deploying eastwards to reconnoitre the countryside around L'Aigle. Eight miles to the east of Gacé, infantrymen from the 6th Battalion Green Howards, one of 50th (Northumbrian) Division's battalions, make their way across the remains of a blown-up bridge over the Charentonne river at St Evroult in company with tanks belonging to the 4/7th Dragoon Guards. French volunteers help sappers prepare a site for the construction of a Bailey bridge while the Green Howards trudge stolidly on in company with an OP carrier from the 124th Field Regiment RA and detachments from the battalion's anti-tank platoon.

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