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Challenger tank of 15th/19th King’s Royal Hussars, 4 March 1945
photograph (copy), photograph
Accession Number

NAM.1995-04-28-1

Description

Copy photograph from an original taken by Captain Edward K Deeming, 15th/19th King’s Royal Hussars. Accompanying note provides caption, ‘THE RHINELAND AND THE BATTLE SOUTH OF UDEM, 4 March 1945: Lt Ted Deeming with crew after the Schlieffen Line had been breached. Challenger tank with 17-pdr gun and Browning 0.30 in. machine gun. Location - Hellmannshof S. of Udem.’ A further note names people featured in the photograph, ‘CHALLENGER CREW: Lt Ted Deeming (with binocular case) then clockwise - Tpr Ken G. Harrison (operator), Tpr D.J.Cain (gunner), Tpr S.T.Ellis (loader), and Tpr P.F. “Smacker” Smith (driver).’ From a collection of 74 copy photographs taken during World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945).

Campaigns

World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945)

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