Key Information
Reference code
PYMAN 5/10
Title
Account, 'The Rhine crossing and advance across north west Germany', written in [1947]
Date(s)
- [1947] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
27pp
Scope and content
Account entitled 'The Rhine crossing and advance across north west Germany' concentrating particularly on the role of Royal Tank Regiment units operating in 7 and 11 Armoured Divs including references to the British liberation of Belsen concentration camp, the capture of Bremen, Germany and Maj Gen Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey's acceptance of the German surrender delegation at Hamburg 3 May 1945. Typescript, 27pp