Irish Guards Memorial plaque, Joe's Bridge
This is on a small stone plinth beside the canal. The crossing here is known as the De Groote Barrier and the bridge was taken one week before Operation Market Garden began. The orginal bridge was destroyed by the Belgians in 1940 in order to delay the invading Germans. They replaced it with a heavy trestle structure which in turn later became as it is here
Picture No
12694750
Media ID
45788410
Size
3000px x 1980px
(2.0MB)
Credit
© Holt's Battlefield Collection / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Tonie and Valmai Holt - Holts' Battlefield Collection
Date
2000
