by ColinAuthor | Nov 18, 2018 | 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment, 5th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 6th Battalion Green Howards, 7th Battalion Green Howards, Pte AE Smith, Pte CA Wellings, Pte G Reid, Pte NHT Welch, Pte PD White
Day 5 – Monday 4th June This ended up being a long day with an equally long post! Following the war diaries to the capture sites of some of the men and returning to Noir Nuit. War diaries in detail So, after the extreme heat of the past two days, a later start saw us...
by ColinAuthor | Aug 15, 2018 | 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment, 231 Brigade, 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment, Cpl J Chapman, Normandy Trips, Pte D Lawrence, Pte JBI Bird, Pte S Brunt, Pte Thomas Blunt
Day 4 – Sunday 3rd June Tilly sur Seulles Salon du Livre We tried to be up early for breakfast. Aiming to be at the “Tilly Book Fair” run at the museum by our friend Stéphane Jacquet from the start. Unfortunately, Glyn had not re-set his alarm to French...
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...
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