Bren at War

[Vincent]

Infantry of the King's Own Scottish Borderers engage the Germans with rifle and Bren gun fire in a street in Bremen, 25 April 1945.

As a crowd of spectators look on. Nobody running for cover. Maybe some kind of demonstration?


I have watched the YouTube video of the 51st Highland Division’s victory parade in Bremen several times. There are several pictures of it in one of my father’s albums.

It was around the same time he came across an abandoned German tank near Tarmstedt,, not far from Bremen. He wanted to “make it safe” and packed the gun with an explosive charge. Half measures was not something he believed in and the blast destroyed the tank and blew all the all windows out of a nearby farmhouse.
A very angry Fräulein came to one of the upstairs windows shaking her fist at him and telling him off in broken English.
That’s how my father and mother met.