by ColinAuthor | Jun 30, 2017 | 1st Lt FT Gillespie, Flt Lt John W Harder, M/Sgt Morris Sheppard, Major Ray Elledge Jnr, Normandy Trips, Pvt Gerald Willen
Day 9 – Wednesday 7th June A walk around Estry This morning we spent time looking around the village of Estry. Taking photographs of the locations of damaged and destroyed Churchill tanks following the battle to liberate the village. Colin needed these in...
by ColinAuthor | Jun 20, 2017 | Flt Lt John W Harder, Normandy Trips
Day 07 – Thursday 2nd June Chasing down John Harder (part 2) After breakfast, we went back to the Mairie in Évron to see the Livre d’Or & John Harder’s signature for ourselves . It was great being able to see a piece of “real history” that I had a direct...
by ColinAuthor | Jun 20, 2017 | Flt Lt John W Harder, Normandy Trips
Day 06 – Wednesday 1st June Chasing John Harder Today would have a focus on tracing John Harder’s return visit to Normandy in the 1970s. On his return he was presented with a medallion by the mayor of Évron This is the main town nearest to where he parachuted...
by ColinAuthor | Aug 22, 2015 | Flt Lt John W Harder, Normandy Trips
Tilly, M. Filoche and Jublains Another hot day dawned. We had seen a weather forecast for this week before leaving England that had been bad. So, we had been exceptionally lucky to have had, largely, sunny hot days. However, the heat might make the journey to see M....
by ColinAuthor | May 27, 2015 | 1st Lt FT Gillespie, Flt Lt John W Harder, Normandy Trips
German Military Cemetery at Marigny Initially, we’d planned to use this day checking out again Ray Elledge’s crash site where we would have dug up some of the metal. However, as this had now been confirmed as not a crash site, we decided to do something different and...
by ColinAuthor | May 27, 2015 | Flt Lt John W Harder, Normandy Trips
Pubs and brewpubs – that’s a different start for us… not! We started off and first went to Banbury where we had lunch in a Hook Norton pub – The Roebuck. Hook Norton being a brewery that neither Glyn nor I had had beers from for a long time. We...
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