Ref the Rommel and Fortune at St. Valery ones don't buy them Bill. I'll let you have a bunch of digital copies for free. They are from Rommels collection held at NARA in the USA. Remind me when I complete your order
Some new acquisitions. First time I’ve seen photos of this - if I’m not mistaken this shows POWs at the end of their march from France being loaded onto barges in Holland for transport down the Rhine to the camps in Germany. Note the shoes on the chap in the third photo - I hope he didn’t do the whole march in them although it is entirely likely. My great granddad described his trip down the Rhine as follows: “...travelled in trucks to the docks and put into barges to sail up the Rhine for Bavaria ...in a very weak and sad condition after all the tramping and marching we had come through with very little to put in our stomach as we had no meals of (sic) the Jerries one month on the march. Out of that month the four days on the barge was hell, nothing to eat nor water to drink but plenty of lice. The worst crave of all was a smoke, it was worse than Hell, machine guns pointing at you if you moved...”
POWs in a holding cage. I was told they were British but from what I can see of the uniforms I would hazard a guess that they are more likely to be French.
BEF POWs at a collecting point. Just on the right, next to the bloke standing? I did wonder. I have a few pictures where the French Adrian helmet can look like a British helmet if it’s sitting at a certain angle but I’m inclined to agree with you on this one.
What do you make of this chap? I posted the full picture on p17 of this thread. Helmet looks British at this angle but uniform looks French.
