Copy photograph from an original taken by Captain Edward K Deeming, 15th/19th King’s Royal Hussars.
Accompanying note provides caption, ‘OVER THE RIVERS WESER AND ALLER TO THE BANKS OF THE ELBE, 12 April 1945: day of rest near Buckholtz [sic] and Sdn Ldr Major (“Baron”) The Lord Rathdonnell orders a sports day and joins in a sack race (in white shirt) unaware that the notorious Belsen Concentration Camp was less than 20 miles north.’
From a collection of 74 copy photographs taken during World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945).