A 3" mortar team in action from No 23 Mortar Platoon (Handcarts), 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment.

A 3" mortar team in action from No 23 Mortar Platoon (Handcarts), 1st Battalion, The Border Regiment.
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Description

Cpl Jim McDowell (foreground), Pte Norman 'Jock' Knight (on the left, rear of the pit) and Pte Jim 'Ginger' Tierney (facing the camera). Just off the Van Lennepweg road, Oosterbeek. Thursday, 21st September 1944. 

Photo taken by Sgt Dennis Smith, AFPU. BU 1098. 

(Research courtesy of R. Hilton). 

Related Units

1st (Airborne) Battalion, The Border Regiment

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