A battery of the 1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery in action as support for the beachhead operations of 100 Brigade, 20th Indian Divison at Myinmu, Burma, where the Irrawaddy River has been crossed by British troops.

An Ordnance BL 5.5-inch Medium Gun fires four times. Shells are prepared for firing by the gun crew, the fuses are screwed into place and the shell is loaded and rammed home in the breach. A gunner works the sights and aims, the breech is closed and the barrel raised into the firing position. Ammunition is piled up and more fuses are attached.

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Dopesheet describes bitter fighting having taken place as the bridgehead was established, and the equally intense Japanese shelling of the beachhead. Sergeant Hammond had hoped to get footage of the 7.2-inch heavy howitzers in action but remarks that 'their fire is reserved for targets of supreme importance'.