A German POW captured during the Allied assault on Walcheren Island in Holland, November 1944. BU1247

A German POW captured during the Allied assault on Walcheren Island in Holland, November 1944.
British assault troops landed on Walcheren at dawn on 1st November 1944 and most of Flushing was included in the first bridgehead. The landings were supported by fire from British warships. The object of the assault is to silence the enemy guns menacing the Scheldt passage to the port of Antwerp. This particular image shows some of the first prisoners captured after the landing.