“Crossing the Rhine” (BRDW 1/1/233)

Photo shows WSC, using a walking stick to pick his way across rubble-strewn ground. He is accompanied by [?General William Simpson of the 9th American Army] and another US officer in uniform. In the group behind them is Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery [later Lord Montgomery of El Alamein] Commander 21st Army Group, wearing a beret.

Mar 1945