Hi Guys, I returned on Tuesday from my 10th annual trip to Arnhem for the commemoration of the 1944 Airborne battle. This year we stayed on the "Bilderberg" camp site in Oosterbeek. This was the main camp site for living history groups attending. Our stay this year was a short one, for 5 days only. As a result I do not have as many pics as I hoped as I was so busy each day, but I am sure that you will enjoy seeing the few I took?
The first photos have an interesting but true story to them. Pictured below are two British Airborne steel helmets; one a leather chinstrap type, the other a web chinstrap type. Both these helmets were discovered in the woods where the camp site is situated, know as "Hacketts Hollow" named after General Hackett. Both these helmets were found as the result of a joke! A Dutch friend of mine, Dick Timmerman, went out into the woods and buried a few items. He then invited some of the group of Polish lads, on their first trip to Arnhem, to have a go with a metal detector to see if they could "find" anything. Dick then discovered these by accident
. Both helmets were placed one inside the other. There was also some personnel items, a shaving mirror, some fragments of webbing, two grenades and what looked like a rib bone. Dick suspects that this was once a temporary field grave that the bodies had been exhumed from post war and the "junk" thrown back into the hole? Both helmets are still in solid condition. They were discovered on Sept.17th, the 59th anniversary of the start of the battle.
The first photos have an interesting but true story to them. Pictured below are two British Airborne steel helmets; one a leather chinstrap type, the other a web chinstrap type. Both these helmets were discovered in the woods where the camp site is situated, know as "Hacketts Hollow" named after General Hackett. Both these helmets were found as the result of a joke! A Dutch friend of mine, Dick Timmerman, went out into the woods and buried a few items. He then invited some of the group of Polish lads, on their first trip to Arnhem, to have a go with a metal detector to see if they could "find" anything. Dick then discovered these by accident
. Both helmets were placed one inside the other. There was also some personnel items, a shaving mirror, some fragments of webbing, two grenades and what looked like a rib bone. Dick suspects that this was once a temporary field grave that the bodies had been exhumed from post war and the "junk" thrown back into the hole? Both helmets are still in solid condition. They were discovered on Sept.17th, the 59th anniversary of the start of the battle.
Comment