Copy photograph from an original taken by Captain Edward K Deeming, 15th/19th King’s Royal Hussars.
Accompanying note provides caption, ‘ACROSS THE RIVER ELBE AND THE GERMAN SURRENDER, 3 May 1945: We arrive at Dreggers (our VE-Day tank harbour) about 6 miles north of Bad Oldesloe, north of the Hamburg-Lubeck autobahn, and watch horse drawn German prisoners and wounded pass through our lines.’
A further note names people featured in the photograph, ‘HORSE DRAWN PRISONERS: In foreground - Tpr Ruddin. (Jeep driver).’
From a collection of 74 copy photographs taken during World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945).