Monday
7 May 1945
Start Location:
DELMENHORST
End Location:
IBBENBUREN
D-Day+
335
7 May 1945
The Bn moved to IBBENBUREN leaving DELMENHORST at 0715 and arriving at 1430.
The tracked column arrived three hours later and the Bn was settled in by 1800 hrs with positions as follows:-
Bn HQ 988091;
"A" Coy 991095;
"B" Coy 997101;
"C" Coy 988088;
"D" Coy 990083;
"S" Coy 038072.
The Bn was comfortably established in billets and settled down to cleaning up and smartening up after eleven months and two days of fighting on the Continent.
In the evening it was announced that the next day would be celebrated as "Victory in Europe" day as all GERMAN armed forces in Europe had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.
By Adam Cuerden - See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=445063
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