Royal Artillery

Northumbrian Gunners

Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Arnhem - Northumbrian Gunners Nijmagen

Just before the end of Operation Market, 124 (Northumbrian) Regiment TA moved to a position north of Nijmagen.

They engaged targets to their north, during which Captain WA Wood MC was killed. By 26th September 1944, Operation Market garden was at an end with the withdrawal from Oosterbeek. The battle for the Island of land between the River Waal and the lower Rhine would however continue till February 1945 when Arnhem was liberated by Canadian forces.

124 Regiment War Diary Nijmagen
 
124 Regiment Gun Position Nijmagen


124 Regiment Gun Position was just to left of Nijmagen Bridge

124 Regiment 441 Battery gun dug in north of Nijmagen