Fine Modern & Antique Guns - December 2015 : Sale A1215 Lot 829
NINE IMAGES OF DEMPSEY SOON AFTER THE BATTLE OF THE RHINE WAS WON,
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NINE IMAGES OF DEMPSEY SOON AFTER THE BATTLE OF THE RHINE WAS WON,
mostly 10in. x 6 1/2in. and showing Dempsey with Lt.-Gen. Neil Ritchie, the popular O.C. of XII Corps, also a contrived image for the War Office of Dempsey cutting a ribbon to open the first Bailey Bridge over the Rhine near Wesel
Other Notes: Dempsey was the first senior British officer to cross the Rhine. This was a conclusive bridgehead with the end of the war in Europe only a matter of weeks away.
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Estimate £40-60