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Infantry advance along an embankment

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Infantry advance along an embankment

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Infantry of 4th Welsh Regiment, 53rd Division, advance along a railway embankment during the capture of city of Hertogenbosch, in the southern part of the Netherlands, 25 October 1944. Conquered by the Germans in World War II in 1940, with its railway station bombed by planes of the Royal Air Force on 16 September 1944, it was liberated in 24–27 October 1944 by British soldiers of Major-General Robert Knox Ross's 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division after Major Donald Bremnerof the 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment, of 158th Infantry Brigade, had already routed the enemy on 23/24th of October.

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4/10/2017

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