The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 The crew of a Cromwell Mk IV tank of 2nd Welsh Guards on the drive into Brussels, 3 September 1944. Despite sporadic resistance from the Royal Palace and Gestapo HQ, the city’s capture went smoothly, ‘the chief difficulty being to cope with the populace who were very effusive in their welcome’, as the Battalion’s war diary put it with typical understatement. Nederlands: Cromwell Mk IV tank van het tweede bataljon Welsh Guards in het centrum van Edingen, onderweg naar Brussel, op 3 september 1944 Français : Char Cromwell Mk IV du deuxième bataillon Welsh Guards dans le centre d'Enghien, en route pour Bruxelles, le 3 septembre 1944