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Trooping the Colour in Oran

Trooping the Colour in Oran

Special Guard of Honour for Trooping the Colour sent over from Gibraltar to Oran [Algeria] for celebrations with French and Americans'. Guard Commander Captain Foljambe, Colour Bearer Captain Lindsell, Platoon Commander Lieutenant Peter Sutton (later MC). Inscribed on the back 'Angus Todd at Military Base, Oran, North Africa, 1944' [ref.Z1000/4/3]

Why is this photograph at Beds & Luton Archives?

Collection ref.Z1000 consists of illustrations and photographs of the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment, World War 2 deposited in 1998 from a publisher in Barnsley.