File:1944 12 03 Mannen van het veldregiment R. A. graven zich in naast een sloot in een mijnenveld rondom Blerick.jpg

Nederlands: Mannen van het veldregiment R. A. graven zich in naast een sloot in een mijnenveld rondom Blerick. Het originele Engelse bijschrift luidt: 'British Second Army Attack on Blerick: "On December 3rd, 1944, at 05:30 hours, a terrific barrage from massed Regiments of artillery including super-heavies, opened the attack on Blerick, the last town held by the Germans on the West bank of the Maas. This was followed by an asault in which British troops supported by armour, took part. One of the obstacles which the troops had to cross was a V-shaped 20-foot-wide, 12-foot-deep anti-tank ditch on the Western outskirts before Blerick. This ditch which is cut across heavily mined open country was crossed by Churchills which had followed the lanes made by Flail tanks. The ditch having been crossed, men of a Field Company, Royal Engineers, in Kangaroos, marked the lanes and dug in beside the obstacle. Picture shows: Men of the Field Regiment R.A. dug in beside the ditch after making lanes through the mine-fields surrounding Blerick'."