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 15, 2018 | 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment, 231 Brigade, 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment, Cpl J Chapman, Normandy Trips, Pte D Lawrence, Pte JBI Bird, Pte S Brunt, Pte Thomas Blunt
Day 4 – Sunday 3rd June Tilly sur Seulles Salon du Livre We tried to be up early for breakfast. Aiming to be at the “Tilly Book Fair” run at the museum by our friend Stéphane Jacquet from the start. Unfortunately, Glyn had not re-set his alarm to French...
by ColinAuthor | Jun 27, 2017 | Normandy Trips
5 – Saturday 3rd June Lost errand boys Today would see us running errands for various people. We set off from Rouen, through some light rain, to meet up with Albert Figg. Our assigned mission was to pick up some of his books and take them to the museum at Saint...
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 | 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...
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