From 9th March 1945 they were in 1st Guards Brigade , 6th Armoured Division.
The two other Battalions were 3rd Bn Grenadier Guards, 3rd Bn Welsh Guards.
Back in a mo.
Just looked up in Gren Gds History,
Quote:
21 st April 1945
Already the 1st Battalion of the Welsh Regiment had reached the southern bank of the canal, and the 17th/21st Lancers, by brillaint use of an earthern causeway , had struck beyond it to capture the village of Poggio Renatico, six miles in the rear of the German frontline......evidence of the enemy's declining morale came with the desertion to the Welch Regiment of a complete German platoon...
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The canal refered to is the Cembalina Canal or Fosso Cembalina roughly half way between Argenta and Ferrara.