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 21, 2015 | 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment, Battlefield Tours, Normandy Trips
On the Invasion Beaches SWORD Beach So, it was off to the beaches. Our first stop was SWORD beach – near the port of Ouistreham – which was almost empty. On our way back to the car, we passed a relic of the Atlantic Wall – the German shore defences. It was either a...
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 | 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 | Aug 1, 2013 | Normandy Trips
Operation EPSOM & Hill 112 Operation EPSOM revisited So, waking up to a dull & overcast morning (as 5th June was, last year), we set off to follow one of the Tours in the BattleZone Normandy book on Operation EPSOM written by Lloyd Clark. Operation EPSOM was...
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