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Originally Posted by grey_green_acorn

There is also this from January 1945

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ject/205124031

Reads "THE FIRST BRITISH LIBERATION ARMY LEAVE PARTY TO ARRIVE IN BRITAIN FROM NORTH WEST EUROPE, 1 JANUARY 1945"

Tim

IWM has another photo with the same date titled :

"D.DAY MEN HOME ON THE FIRST LEAVE BOAT"

"Boarding the train , on route for the port."

Unfortunately there is no info about where it was taken , trains were running from Paris to the Ports (first 'leave train' from Milan was 23/7/45) but would they have had NAAFI buffet cars ?

Another IWM photo shows :

"ATS trained NAAFI girls in Hamburg"

It is dated 27/5/45 , shortly after the BLA was redesignated to become the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) in August 1945.

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