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Mainer In Exile
Brilliant! Thank you. Let me run that by a couple of folks who lead staff rides to Normandy and see if I can get a precise ID of the location, etc.
Allen
Here is a caption that is with the photo on the web
DescriptionTaken on the Utrechtseweg, opposite the junction with the Bredeweg, at 08:00 on Monday 18th September(Market Garden). The kilted Captain James Ogilvie, commander of "D" Squadron The Glider Pilot Regiment talks with an officer whose identity has not been established with certainty. Although the sign in the bottom right indicates that he may be Lieutenant-Colonel Loder-Symonds, the Commander Royal Artillery, it is believed that it is more likely to be the commander of No.1 Wing The Glider Pilot Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Iain Murray. Ogilvie drowned whilst attempting to swim the Rhine during the withdrawal on the 25th/26th September.
(rudeerude)
More info - From a WW11 forum, the year is 1944
Last edited by Downunder Kilt; 13th October 12 at 08:02 PM.
Shoot straight you bastards. Don't make a mess of it. Harry (Breaker) Harbord Morant - Bushveldt Carbineers
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