Rhine Crossing (Operation Varsity)

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Newspaper report on the death of Captain Samuel Wilkie McGowan

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Paratroopers prepare for an exercise prior to the Rhine Crossing operation, early 1945

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Men from 4 Platoon B Company 8th Battalion before take off for Rhine Crossing. 1945

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Men of 5 Platoon B Company 8th Battalion just before take off for Rhine Crossing, 1945

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A Hamilcar glider, airborne motorcycle and Universal Carrier on the Rhine Crossing landing zone, March 1945.

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Troops of 1 Parachute Pl, 716 Light Comp Coy RASC aboard a Universal Carrier, Hamminkeln, March 1945.

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Troops of 1 Parachute Pl, 716 Light Comp Coy RASC in the streets of Hammilkeln, March 1945

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Group photograph of officers decorated by Field Marshal Montgomery, Lüneburg Heath Germany, 1945.

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Graves of 2nd Ox and Bucks LI in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, March 1985.

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The early pattern smock of CSM Warcup damaged in 1944 on Op Varsity, from the Airborne Assault Museum Collection, Duxford.

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The 4 Regt AAC Escort to The AAC Guidon at Marks Hall Estate, Essex, March 2010

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Mr L Rooke, Mr B Hilton & Mr T Huntbach, Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, 31 Mar 2010.

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