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World War Two / Re: Grandad - Scots Guard - help needed
« on: Sunday 12 October 14 20:31 BST (UK)  »
3rd Battalion Scots Guards.

June 1944...Kent. change of gun from 6 pounder to 75mm. Test firing out into channel near Shornecliffe barracks.

Mid July near Portsmouth/Gosport.
Departed Gospaort 'hards'.
Landed Normandy. S Squadron arriving a day later. Travelled to fields near Bayeux (Esquay).
Move late 28th July to Martiniere and area...approx. 3 miles north Caumont.
Moved overnight 29th to just north of Caumont L'evente.
Operation Bluecoat 30th July.
Hill 226 (Now hill/cote 234). Les Loges.
St Martin de Besaces.
Le Tourneur.
'Mortar' Gulch...as it was know....area where Le tourner road meets the Villers Bocage/Vire road.
Arclais.
Montcharival/Montchauvet.
Estry.
Pressles.
Le Bas Perrier.
Chenendolle.
Then towards Vassy, but squeezed out of line.....decreasing pocket of Falaise.

More to follow.

EF

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World War Two / Re: Grandad - Scots Guard - help needed
« on: Saturday 11 October 14 20:59 BST (UK)  »
Hello,
          I have only just read your mail. You might try viewing ww2talk and the scots guards forum under here.
Have a look also at 6th guards tank brigade website on google.....some good photos.
Required reading: Patrick Forbes, 6th Guards tank brigade. Ian Daglish, Bluecoat 'over the battlefield'.
There wewre two Todd's in the 3rd battalion at that time; Squadron Sgt Major John Todd.....S Squadron and your grandfather.
I will ask my Father if he remembers your grandfather.
My father was in the Scots Guards from 1942-47.
3rd Battalion from 1942-June 1945, 1st battalion thereafter.

Write to the Scots Guards adjutant at Wellington barracks. Explain who you are and request a visit to their archives....you might get to see pictures of your grandfather.

Visit the Imperial War Museum in Austral street ( an Annex) behind the main museum, they have aural, pictoral and film records of the Scots Guards and the 6th Guards tank brigade.

If my father remembers your grandfather, I will post a message to you.

Rgds,

EF.

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