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208642Arthur Spence
British Army 59th Reconnaissance Corps
My Dad, Art Spence, served with the West Yorks then transferred to the 59th Recce then 53rd Recce. I have a number of photographs, but unfortunately, I don't know the names of other individuals except as inscribed on the back of the pictures.
Art Spence and Bren crew with replacements after losing 2 to a tank mine.
Half Track
Art Spence top left, Nick and Jock bottom right, Germany 1945 & prisoners on the road Hamburg
Top left POW's on road to Hamburg, Germany 1945
Art Spence and friend in Hamburg, June 1945
Frassett, Germany 1945
Frassett, Germany 1945.
George Gardner receives Military Medal from Monty in Dusselforf 1945.jpg
photo inscribed: please give this to Arthur Spence
Nijmegen brige, Holland 1944
Reichwald 1945 Churchill tanks.
Start of the attack Reichwald 1945.
Art Spence and squad.
Pontoon Bridge.
Arnhem bridge, September 1944.
Evrecy cross roads, france 1944.jpg
groesback start line 1945.
Nuncq, Germany 1945.jpg
Recce Regiment, Hamburg May 1945
Reichwald 1945
Reichwald 1945
Tiger tank at Falaise 1944.
Evrecy, France 1944.jpg
Flame throwing Churchill tanks, Reichwald 1945
In Germany 1945.jpg
Maeseyck, Belgium 1944.
Near Hamburg 1945
Normandy 1944.
Reichwald 1945.
s hertogenbosch shield, Holland, 53rd Welsh Division.
Churchill Tank, Reichwald 1945.
Courseulles sur mer, France 1945.
Manchesters giving support, Reichwald 1945.
Germany 1945
Second Army Thanks Giving Service
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