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Posted on Sat Mar 12, 2011 5:54 am by webmaster
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Re: Terrain Challenge #43 (Score: 1) by papa_whisky on Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:06 pm (User Info | Send a Message) | It looks like a French church. The area marked with a circle is small and against a wall. I am guessing it was the location of an execution by a firing squad...who and where I have not idea. |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #43 (Score: 1) by Lestayo on Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:37 pm (User Info | Send a Message) | Keep searching!!! You are in the good way!! |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #43 (Score: 1) by matthewhalos on Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:05 pm (User Info | Send a Message) | Battle of Ypres....World War I |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #43 (Score: 1) by matthewhalos on Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:37 am (User Info | Send a Message) | ahhh.....ok
let me see......hmmmmm
St. Marie du Mont!!!! maybe |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #43 (Score: 1) by Buck_Compton on Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:44 pm (User Info | Send a Message) | Ok this was quite a tough one. But it is Ranville church. Not sure tough what the red circle points out to. A landing site of someone special of the 6th Abn??
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Re: Terrain Challenge #43 (Score: 1) by matthewhalos on Sun Mar 20, 2011 4:56 am (User Info | Send a Message) | this is the drop zone of the 101st Airborne Division.....506th Parachute Infantry Regiment |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #43 (Score: 1) by matthewhalos on Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:44 am (User Info | Send a Message) | well...if this is Ranville (as said by Buck_Compton)
it is the defending place of the 1st Special Service Brigade, No. 4 Commando.......led by Brigadier Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #43 (Score: 1) by Lestayo on Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:48 pm (User Info | Send a Message) | Ok, ok, it´s Ranville.
All answers are rigth, but the red circle delimits something more concrete ... What is it? |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #43 (Score: 1) by matthewhalos on Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:32 pm (User Info | Send a Message) | a.)Scottish parachutists plaque
b.)Jim Wright plaque
c.)Major Strafford plaque
d.)the landing zone of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
e.)the British war cemetery |
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Re: Terrain Challenge #43 (Score: 1) by Lestayo on Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:56 pm (User Info | Send a Message) | Lieutenant Herbert Denham Brotheridge was a British Army officer, and was the first Allied soldier to be killed in action on D-Day, 6 June 1944, during Operation Tonga.
Brotheridge was born in Smethwick, Staffordshire.
Brotheridge commanded a platoon in Major John Howard's 'D' Company, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 6th Airborne Division, and led a charge across the Bridge now known as Pegasus Bridge. He was hit with a shot to the neck and died of wounds in the early hours of 6 June aged 26. He is buried in the War Cemetery in Ranville Churchyard near Caen in France. Ranville was the first village in France to be liberated.
Brotheridge received a mention in dispatches for this action.
Note that some purists modify this death to be the first death "by enemy fire" because another soldier in the attack (Lance-Corporal Fred Greenhalgh) died by drowning when exiting his glider.
A memorial plaque to commemorate the events of Den Brotheridge's death was unveiled at Smethwick Council House on 2 April 1995 by his daughter, Margaret Brotheridge. |
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