Hello Ivor,   I have just found your very interesting web site and how interesting it was to see pictures of Hamburg and Gummersbach, there weren't many cameras about then.  I am ex Irish Guards, 2725673 Gdsn. Evans and was with 2 IG at Gummersbach and Hamburg. I am still in touch with two pals from those days.
Gdsn R Annison 2725783 and Gdsn G.H.Jones 2725679, were at Caterham with me,  together with Squad Instructors, Sgt Doogan,.Sgt Davies and Sgt McDowell., we stayed together most of our service time and still meet up twice  a year in Stamford for a few pints. Names like CSM Lynch, RSM Teddy Nye , Montgomery DCM, and of course CSM Watton often come up. I have recently found another pal,  Gdsn A Searle 2725698  from Ipswich, who wrote an article in the Times about the crew of the "Graf Spee" German battleship coming into Hamburg in 1946. He was in the detail seeing them off the boat, you may remember the occassion. In 1995, I went with Bob Annison to Hamburg and visited our barracks in Wandsbek. We were made very welcome and allowed to look round. We even went into the barrack block (Roberts) which was HQ company and went into the room which was the Orderly Room, by the way we were all in the orderly room along with names Bray, Haws, Rose,  Sgt Gilmore,  Cpl Johnson,  ORQMS Wilde, and others.


During our visit I took the attached photo of our last get together. ( L to R. Annison, Evans, Jones.)
and comparison photographs to compare with ones from about 1946, which you can see by clicking on  

NORMAN'S ALBUM

 Best Regards
Norman Evans, Lincolnshire.