The Life Guards, 1945/6

A few more from Germany. The first ( written on the back ) 137 Argerlander Strasse, Bonn 1945. The second train wreck outside Hanover Nov 1945 and the third Cologne bridge Aug 1945. The others are from Berlin on the 17th of April 1946.

Peter

Many thanks clearly the best ever images for the early days of BAOR

more of the regiments time line from 30 Corps District Kew documentation

Command 5th Infantry Division – Northampton Barracks Wolfenbüttel – to Berlin 18 Mar 46 returns 7 Jun 46 – a squadron remains in Berlin 7-27 Jun 46 relieved by a composite squadron of 13th/18th Hussars
13 Jun 46 – Lüneburg command Guards Division
6 Jul 46 – to United Kingdom

Keep up the great work

There's a few more from Germany to post but they are portraits and scenery. Here are a few Nazi propaganda photo's that were with my uncles photo's. Please note that if you look at the corners of the photo's you will see that they were probably sellotaped to a wall somewhere ( probably the old Luftwaffe headquarters )

Hello all,

To keep the story going I thought I would carry on and add the photo's of Egypt to this post. The next 34 photo's follow the regiment from Toulon,France in July 1946 to Egypt, Dec 1946. All of these photo's have names and dates written on the back most of them are just local scenes.Some of the places named are Amariya N.A.A.F.I. Alexandria, Cairo, Mena and B squadron,Kasr-El-Nil Barracks.

Hi,
Look forward to viewing some more photos.

Alan

The last of the photo's from Egypt from January and February 1947. Places named on them include, The Western desert and the British Military Hospital at Amiriya.

Yep, reminds me much of Libya before Gadaffi kicked us out!

Of course it's Egypt. Thanks for the great photos. So good someone put on record for future generations. I bet the photographer didn't have that on his mind at the time.

Peter

May I belatedly add to the information you posted with your set of photographs on the 22nd May

I think the locations are as follows:-

Photo 3 Taken from east bank of the River Rhine looking at Cologne Cathedral (the Hohenzollern Railway Bridge had been destroyed by bombing.

4. Reichstag Building Berlin

5. Twin Towers at the entrance to the walkway to the Olympic Stadium

7. View of inside the Olympic Stadium.

10 Soviet War Memorial at the Brandenburg Gate (Reichstag Building in background)

13. Tiergarten Railway Station on the Berlin Stadt Bahn.

Great set of photo's ... a good addition to the site.

Peter56 - some fantastic pictures of the LG would you please contact me

Like the Life guards photos very much . in 1956 we had exactly the same AFVs including the AEC Matador.

Very good job done here. Reminds me of my time in Egypt (74-74) especially my time in the Sinai Desert.  Would be nice to see more on the same theme of those days. Also the surprise was seeing the address of the photo shop in Goslar in the Hartz Mt. region. My wife ended up about 10 KM from there at the end of the war.