by ColinAuthor | Jun 20, 2017 | Normandy Trips
Day 10 – Sunday 5th June Hill 112 with Albert Figg An awesome breakfast restored our good humour (as did my increasing fluency in French – this time unaided by Calvados & wine!). Mme Baratte explained that she sometimes enjoyed doing some silly & unusual...
by ColinAuthor | Apr 22, 2016 | Battlefield Tours
Today saw us head up to Hill 112 near Everecy to meet up with an historian contact – Dominique Bidart . I had connected with him through Facebook. We also wanted to take a look at the new statue that’s been erected on the hill to commemorate the many...
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 | 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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