Lancashire Fusiliers Osnabruck
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12 platoon at Senelager, West Germany 1961

 

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APC's on camp at Quebec Bks, Osnabruck



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D Coy on range at Senelager, Oct 1961


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WO11 CSM Burrows firing the LMG from 100yd point, Senelager


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D Coy waiting for American 3rd Armoured Div tanks to pass before moving out on Luneberg Heath during training for
NATO scheme in Oct 1961to be held later in November named "Operation Spearpoint"


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US Army 3rd Div tank, possibly M60? goes past


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US Army Tracked APC going past


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US tank passing


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Fusiliers Terry Wilding,Fus Brown,Fus Eddleston and Fus "Solford City II" outside the farmhouse used as a billet
before digging in the OP's on the Mittland Canal for Operation Spearpoint



Fusiliers in the snow outside the Dewdrop Inn in Winterberg when we
( D Coy ) ran the Winter Warfare Training centre
for 3 months ,I think this was Jan, Feb, Mar.62,?

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from left ,1. Unknown Fus, 2. Cpl Paddy Fitzgerand (Reg Police) Fus Jimmy Stockton from Worsley,Fus Eddie Bates and Fus Harry Wright.

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Fus Eddleston ( from Accrington) in the snow outside the Kurhausse in Winterberg
where I picked up the mail each day when I was acting Post Corporal



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Recovery truck that came to drag my Austin Champ out of the ditch after skidding in the snow


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Fus Bill Chapman (from Moss Side,Manchester) pointing and Fus "Rosie" Rose in Copenhagen
by the Little Mermaid taken on rest & recuperation after the scheme against the Danish army in November 1961