by ColinAuthor | Nov 28, 2018 | Normandy Trips
Day 7 – Wednesday 6th June An exhibition, a museum, a possible memorial and a ceremony. An early and foggy start The unhelpful weather continued as we said “à bientôt” to Mme Barratte for another year. We headed off for the opening of a new exhibition in...
by ColinAuthor | Aug 21, 2015 | Battlefield Tours, Major Ray Elledge Jnr, Normandy Trips
Hill 112 and Ray Elledge’s Crash Site On Hill 112 Today was spent, in many ways, with our usual routine for the 5th June. A return visit to Hill112 (via Evercy church) in the company of veteran Albert Figg (who fought there) & his daughter Annette. Before...
by ColinAuthor | Aug 12, 2015 | Battlefield Tours, Normandy Trips, Talks
Operation BLUECOAT Battlefield tour and talk Today started wet & with a return to Hill 226 and a second meet-up with Stéphane Jacquet as he’d asked me to go through the talk that I do on the start of Operation BLUECOAT which focuses on 3rd Battalion Scots Guards...
by ColinAuthor | Aug 12, 2015 | Major Ray Elledge Jnr, Normandy Trips, Talks
Preparations for the “Men in the Shed” talk So, the Big Day dawned… Today was the day chosen to celebrate the Liberation, 70 years ago on 14th August 1944, of St Vigor des Mezerets by 43rd Wessex Infantry Division (the same one that Albert Figg fought...
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,...
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