December 2024
Commonwealth Cemetery, Dunville Sur Mer
Commonwealth Cemetery Hermanville Sur Mer A Poignant visit at this time of year. Together with the family of Tim Maton I visited the Commonwealth Cemetery at Hermanville sur Mer. [...]
October 2024
220 Battery 112th (Wessex,) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
Lt Douglas Goddard Royal Artillery (later Major Douglas Goddard, MBE, FCIS.) An exceptional bespoke tour during October 2024. Nigel and Mark Goddard followed in the footsteps of their father/grandfather [...]
July 2024
US Normandy Cemetery Omaha Beach.
US Normandy Cemetery, Omaha Beach A very special visit to the U.S. Normandy Cemetery at OMAHA Beach. I accompanied Aileen Killen to visit the grave of her uncle Warren [...]
April 2024
The Battle of Mortain: Operation Luttich
The Battle of Mortain : Operation Luttich. "Time spent in recconaissance is seldom wasted" In March 2024 I spent a special day walking the fields and villages of St [...]
March 2024
Blessent mon cœur, D’une langueur, Monotone.
UNESCO World Poetry Day 21st March 2024. The poem Chanson d' Automne by Paul Verlaine is one of the best known in French Literature. It is included in Verlaine's first collection, Poemes saturniens, published in [...]
February 2024
The Battle of Graignes 10th-12th June 1944
A heroic stand by 182 paratroopers of 3rd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment. 17 of whom along with 26 French civilians were murdered by 17th SS Panzergrenadiers. During the [...]