Thank you so much. Sgt Rees was my platoon Sgt. One of those that perished when they lifted new mines in their hundreds and the whole lot blew. I...
Roll of Honour Corps of Royal Engineers. Third British Infantry Division. Watson C.W. Captain Hermanville war cem Johnson R.H L/Sgt Ranville cem...
Earlier I described our part in the Market Garden Operation. And the route. Escaut canal. Weert, Marheeze, Euvelwegen, Helmond Etc Being this was...
Previously, as the resume of the war in Normandy has shown, we had taken on the enemy and beaten him. Through out the campaign so far, we had gone...
You are right..I really should have a go at publishing. I write on other sites, one has a readership of 122,747 But age and disabilities make it...
Market Garden! To get the whole picture of Market Garden in its true focus. It is first necessary to look at the whole of the campaign in North...
Additional information on the route.These are just the main moves and nmot those taken in some actions. The Route Newhaven. / Southampton /...
The views I am about to express about Market garden, are entirely my own, and are gathered from one that took part in that operation. If to say...
Next ….Was it really “The Bridge too far”? Why is that seen as too risky??? So firstly. let me give a rough idea of the route taken. The route...
Over the years there has been a great deal of controversy over the operation known as "The Bridge Too Far" It would help, if others here could...
No bother at all my freind...None! To return to the damage in Caen, It was so bad that in some cases it was impossible to recognise streets, even...
The bombing took place on the 7th of July in the evening. We entered the City on the 8th of July, by the left hand route along the high ground...
185 brigade did well, though suffering casualties. By mid day they had captured Lebisey wood and were on the higher bit of flat ground that...
Yes..Caen was a pivotal point that the whole of the battle Normandy pivoted on. The previous battle to the North of the City had been ferocious in...
Previous to the operation, which began on the 8th of July. (the attack on Caen) 17th fd coy was still at Benouville. Thery sent out...
Any one help? Is there any way to tell how many folk read the pages that I post? Is it just a few or is there a more numerous number of readers?
July 1944 was the month that we (Third British Infantry) captured the city of Caen. Jointly with the Third Canadian Division. An operation where...
The taking of Caen. There is an interesting document that describes very clearly the violence in the approach to the city, and the actions that...
You are spoiling me friends!....
Frt all my friends of that distant world of long ago. Quietly! Quietly! Whisper my Name. So many long years ago I died, under Norman apple...
