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Description: In a rest billet less than two miles from the front line. Seen through the doorway of a damaged building Captain J F Burgess, RA, briefing his party of FOBs (Forward Observation Bombardment) before setting out for the observation post. The party will move off in an armoured lorry for a certain distance while the remainder of the journey is made on foot.

Label : Captain J F Burgess, Royal Artillery, briefing a party of FOBs (Forward Observation Bombardment) in a Normandy village, June 1944.

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