by ColinAuthor | Apr 22, 2016 | Major Ray Elledge Jnr, Normandy Trips
So, having met Sam & Martha for a meal last night, today we were off in the footsteps of Martha’s father – Major Raymond P Elledge Jr. In many ways, today was all about the whole point of this project. Giving back to the family of one of the men that...
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 | Aug 12, 2015 | Normandy Trips
Disaster! We’ve had some interesting escapades on these trips with late arrivals at hotels, having to wait at the Chunnel for a delayed train, etc, but this one was spectacular! We’d had a look around the village of Cricklade and had set off for the Chunnel as my...
by ColinAuthor | Aug 12, 2015 | Normandy Trips, Talks
Return to Normandy So, back off to Normandy for a third time in a single year – one of the benefits of an “Anniversary Year”… and my wife, Elaine, wasn’t complaining, either, as it meant that she got the benefit of another chunk of snore-free night’s sleep! As...
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