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Between a rock and the Vrbas

Photo: Cpl. Paul Rowland

On a narrow valley road snaking through a river-carved mountain pass about 15 kilometres north of the town of Jajce (Federation, canton 6), engineers from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom Battle Groups worked together to bridge the Vrbas River. Now complete, the new bridge serves as a key route between several local small towns and a major traffic artery. A ceremony was held Aug. 15 during which it was named after Lance Cpl. Chris McLeish, a member of 26th Armoured Engineer Squadron who was killed in a fire at the Mrkonjic Grad Bus Depot in 1996.

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