WINDOW PAINS
The 6th Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry found its first job after crossing the Rhine in March in 1945 was to collect equipment scattered around the east bank as a result of earlier fighting. But they found some German villagers had already started scavenging among the battle debris. They had been hauling away live artillery shells. There were fears that the German civilians were being encouraged by the Nazis to attack British troops with homemade bombs. So, a party of heavily armed Jocks were sent to raid the farmhouse where it was suspected the shells were being hidden. It turned out the Germans at the farm had been harvesting the explosive paste from the shells to use as window glass putty to reglaze the farm buildings.
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