Category: Merville Battery
6th Airborne Division Battlefield Tours
During May and September, I will be acting as a guide for two battlefield tours to the area of the
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Battlefield Tour Film – WW2TV – The Liberation of Amfreville.
The village of Amfreville sits on the Breville Ridge, overlooking the bridges across the River Orne, the Caen Canal, part
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Remembering Harold ‘Johnnie’ Walker, 9th Parachute Battalion
One here from a good few years ago. Harold ‘Johnnie’ Walker of 12 Platoon, ‘C’ Company, 9th Parachute Battalion. Harold
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The Calvary Cross – The 9th Parachute Battalion RV following the Assault on the Merville Battery.
In the introductory video on the ‘ABOUT’ page, in one scene I can be seen sitting at a Calvary Cross.
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Lieutenant George Peters remembered on the Knutsford War Memorial.
23 year-old Lt George Frederick Peters, 9th Parachute Battalion, was killed in action on D-Day during a ‘friendly bombing’ incident.
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Building work to permanently alter the topography of the Merville Battery.
No 1 Casemate at the Merville Battery
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Lieutenant Thomas Colledge Halliburton.
Officer who led the 9th Battalion patrol into Amfreville.
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Roy Wright’s Para Smock
A unique item of Merville Battery history.
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Discovery of the Landing Position of the First Glider to arrive above the Merville Battery
Discovery of the Merville Battery ‘missing glider’ landing position.
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