The goal of this thread is to keep you informed of events and ceremonies taking place in the Operation Bluecoat and in the British Breakout area...
Thought I would share these photos which I have managed to find. Most of them include my grandfather Alec Smith (2660391) who was in 3 Squadron,...
Did a presentation earlier this week for WW2TV. So, for those interested in the 8th Rifle Brigade in Normandy and in Operations Epsom, Goodwood...
At the start of March 2020 I started my dream holiday with a general plan on spending a couple of months in France & Germany before returning home...
Hi there, As part of researching the family tree, I found that my great uncle was KIA on on or around 2 August 1944. He was in the listed as no....
Presles, Calvados (at the foot of the Perrier ridge). Early 20th century: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] (note the people standing on some steps on the...
‘A Boys Own Adventure’ doesn’t even come close to describing Leslie Young’s war. Nicely retold by his son, Nicholas, this memoir ticks all the...
[IMG] Operation Bluecoat: July 30 to August 7, 1944: Operation Bluecoat, better known as "The Breakthrough in the Bocage", was launched from...
Tolbooth submitted a new resource: Lothians & Border Yeomanry WD July 44 - Transcription of L&BY War diary July 194 Transcription of L&BY...
Transcription of L&BY Regimental War Diary July 44, covering arrival in Normandy and Op BLUECOAT I have tried to retained any corrections or...
For anyone interested in the 8th Rifle Brigade and their campaign, from 13 June 1944 to 8 May 1945, through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany:...
After 6 years of preparation it is finally finished: the illustrated autobiography of Don Gillate, an 8th Rifle Brigade and 11th Armoured Division...
Ha! Got you :) An extract (page 61) from "The Battle: a tank officer remembers" by Capt. Geoffrey Bishop MC, C Sqr, 23rd Hussars, describing...
31st July 1944. Vehicles of 8th Rifle Brigade at the crossroad in St Martin des Besaces, heading for the newly-captured bridge over the Souleuvre:...
Update: 8th Royal Scots movements during the Normandy Campaign (June through August) have be updated in the Battle of Normandy animation here...
During July and August 1944 British Armoured Divisions regrouped to form brigade groups and battlegroups for operations in the enclosed...
Hello, iam searching for the unit diary of the 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry espcially for the time of the Normandy campaign. Every help is...
Dear reader, For an illustrated book on the memoirs of Don Gillate I am looking for any material I can use as illustrations. Don was a Rifleman...
Hello WO 171/1255 has the war diary up to December 1944, but what happened after then? Does anyone know if there is a further diary - nothing...
It's been suggested by a couple of people that I post this photograph and some details about my dad. The 70th anniversary of D-Day seems a fitting...
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