by ColinAuthor | Jun 1, 2015 | Normandy Trips
Mullberies Sunday saw us begin our winding way homeward. For a change, we decided to head north towards the beaches & one of the first sea-born sights to greet us was the remaining pieces of the Mulberry Harbours; an amazing feat of engineering born of the...
by ColinAuthor | Jun 1, 2015 | 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment, Cpl J Chapman, Pte D Lawrence, Pte Thomas Blunt
Back to Hill 226… Saturday morning saw Glyn & me back onto Hill 226, wading along the edge of the fields through waist high crops so that I could get some clear photographs to supplement my talk of the battle as we’d not been able to take them...
by ColinAuthor | May 31, 2015 | Normandy Trips
Stand in battlefield tour guide Earlier in the week, I’d received a phone call from Eain Findlay to say that he and his father, Muir, wouldn’t be able to make the trip this year as he’d put his back out. Eain was happy to drive munching on painkillers, but somehow,...
by ColinAuthor | May 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
Hill 112 and Albert Figg We were up fairly early in the morning and headed off to Hill 112 ready to meet Albert Figg, a veteran of the campaign there. Albert is the guy who did most of the fundraising to put a Churchill tank on top of the Hill in memory of the men...
by ColinAuthor | May 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
A vampire then to bed in a box Tank shells to vases It had rained quite a lot overnight and was still raining when we woke up. So we decided that we weren’t in a hurry. The farm where we were staying had some interesting vases full of flowers, however, somewhat...
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