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In 1944 MARTIN LINDSAY commanded the Gordon Highlanders tu· Normandy, Ronald, aged 13; He has just revisited the battlefields with his son Together they oyaled through history. This is the story of what they sawl
Corn hides the tanks in the smiling fields of Normandy
Normandy now
MARTIN LINDSAY, D.8.0., M.P.
For we
Falaise, E crossed in
It pictures William's lancers Britain's first post-war riding down Harold's foot sol- passenger ship, arriving diers at Hastings.
As usual, the English were unprepared for war. had refused to equip ourselves with the new cavalry arm. al- ready in use on the Continent, on the ground that it was un- English.
By at St Malo at daybreak. the const road, in blazing sun- shine, we came to Mont St Michel. Then, leaving Brittany for Normandy, we climbed a long, steep hill and passed the
scono of a massnere.
A German column, withdraw- ing south from Avranches, had been ambushed by the Maquis. Thoir burned out tanks and trucks still lie there, piled up at
a bend in the road.
That night we got to Gran- ville, famous for its sunsets and
lobsters.
But the lobsters were not for us, striving to get by on about £1 each a day. No easy task today, if one is largely depon- dient upon hotels in post-war France.
Life in St. Lo NEXT day we passed through St Lo, fiercely fought for by the Americans and almost totally destroyed.
Life still goes on there, in prefabricated shops and wooden
huts.
We searched in vain for ae- commodation, and finally struck off the main road and into small humlet.
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Just as in 1939, when asked to approve my proposals for a paratroop cadre, the small C.I.GS. replied: "I decline to nsk Englishmen to do that."
Truly, from the Battle of Hastings to Bayeux cemetery, it is not so very far.
was difficult to recapture the to fight at Caen, atmosphere of that tremulous thought.. experience
Our host here was a yeoman
On his desk is a photo farmer. graph of a major in the Scots Greys who was found in one of his fields in January 1945, when the corn of "the harvest which was lost" was cut.
We slept that night in a roon gashed by many shell splinters, after such a wizard dinner that Ronald had a pain.
Shelled A Week
ALONG the dusty, grey roads,
mun-
which have known the tramp of so many marching armies. Past sleek Norman cows ching apples under the trees. Fast women gleaning the golden corn, and the German tanks which still blend in well with it.
At Arromanches the Mulberry remains impressive. harbour We eyeled eastwards along the The boy climbed into each sands. past children playing in search of souvenirs. twisted, rusting landing-craft and tanks.
So to the bench upon which I myself had landed, showing it with pride to my son.
The little seaside resorts are very little damaged, the bit- terest fighting having taken place inland, But all take great pride in the part they played in world history.
British tanks, also.
in
our hostess
Nine men and youths on the estate were rounded up. "You know what happens next time," said the general: "we select one of your women and she it in who chooses which man we shall shoot."
The husband of the fair girl on taken to Ger- my right had been many in 1942 and never heard of again. They had been married only
fortnight.
Another, whom we had met week earlier, was implicated in the hlding of Resistance men. To try to multe her folk, the Gestapu put her
infant on the table and shot it be fore her eyes.
all
I think that Ronald now knows allt1 of wint 1939-45 Wag about.
Deauville today EARLY next morning we reached
cars
Deauville: smallish place of sharply contrasting holidaymakers.
On the one hand the millionaires,
American their huge with bearing the number plates of every capital from New York to Cairo, with their chauffeurs, secretories On the other, the many and valets. humble people enjoying the simple pleasures of sun and sund.
POCKET CARTOON By OSDERT LANCASTER
JCUSTOM
If Mr. Dalton docent mind my taking it abroad, what's it got to do with -
you how hot I am?
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
PARTY of experts from the
A home office visited Wag- gling Parva the other day, and were shown round the labora- tories by Dr Strabismus (Whom God Preserve) of Utrecht.
They were especially interested in the Doctor's attempt to separate particles of sphiphophyll from each and in the large asbestos- other, lined tank which contains Syring To TA newts, hand-fed on terodofol. front
entertain his guests the sage filled a retort with tiny ahreds of glapiron, and then added un emulcent. The Hafle explained that this is what retort burst with a soft puff, and the would happen on a far larger scale iC the earth's erust cooled tou quietly.
A Churchill still had "Rogues Gallery" painted on the
11th the bull of the and Armoured Division on the back. The serup-metal people have seen about, and "Sold to De combze" was chalked upon the
turret.
I hoped that the rogues got out in time, when it was hit by the 88 at the end of the field. Hence the
commemorative Decombe had bought that, too. monuments, the
tody . miney
Lunch in St. Sylvain, which des Anglais," the Cafes "du we of the Gordons had shared Debarqument" Or "de 6 juin.”
with the Black Watch, heavily
Dour Norman Pierre Her. A peasant's welcome
mill, small
farmer, tenant
agreed to put us up after long.
cautious reflection.
In a reserved occupation, not as a producer but because he had four children, he had built up a fine dairy herd.
But in course of fighting all his beasts were persed.
shelled for a hateful week.
ofli-
On to Glatigny, where we had
11 young Canadian
His father, postmaster by
AN old peasant woman put us lost
up near Courseulles, where cer. the men of Durham and York-, one of the Great Lakes, wrote shire had waded ashore. We hack to me: "I am an old soldier, slept in a room marked "Q.M. and I knew too well what to ex- Stores. Keep out,"
She refused
peet."
the At the Casino I watched nbassadors and big industrialists, major rentlers and the minor
the
princes, playing baccarat for thou-Tibetan · sands.
hinterland could scarce ̈ repress"
Moonflower' (XIX.) . Also, at another table, three well-E moanfower of the Tibetan
THE news- known English people-a paper owner, a Derby winner, and a duchess-playing with the minimum stake of about 7s., for you cannot
long on the chante gumbic
£76.
from
The road home WHAT with one thing and another,
We
very werd
Deauvile for Listeux, where I was
to receive a civic welcome.
That evening there was a very moving ceremony at the British Through Percy, where the cemetery, and another next day at church tower was booby-trapped the war memorial. and came tumbling down when liberation anniversary con- our gunner-observer went up it, cluded with a banquet. During it I of that same night three Still rolling on well, almost thought naked, revelling in the sun and the fitness of our brown, pulsat-
a smile of triumph as first Egham and then Mince signed the meaning- less "document" which she placed before them. When the ceremony was over Mince shouted "That
pressure
one
for a crink, sweet harpy of the Enst" The glasses were filled. Into dainty ear Egham was murmuring, "Get rid of this fool, my wild honey- Inte leaving suckuckle." Into the other dolly
Mince was whispering, dismiss this loul! Cous tumpany, my darling." Skilfully she played them one against another now yield- ing to one a grudging quarter-inch of her damask check, now reward- ing the other with an eloquent of the hand. But the drink was doing its work. potent Eyes were glazing and gestures be-
wilder. Graceful coming willow in the wind; Dingl-Pous rose. She. had decided that a little soft Reduced to one company, having music might now lull these tiresome idiots to sleep. It was high time to days, we were dug-in upon the bill be citi of them. beyond the town. In the misery of deep mud and pouring rain, and He must go, say operatives expecting a panzer counter-attack,
wished that I were Next day riding
So did Roauld, a tricycle. who had sipped a little too much of "that red stuff."
any payment. For her son, the youngest of
The killed or dis- 12, had escaped to England, where for three years, he had "a good English mother."
Past the twin spires of Lat Delivrande,
past the fields
With family, neighbours, and labourers, we dipped our bread in great bowls of stew, discuss
years ago.
ing-as any farmer might well where the tented hospitals used ing limbs. Revelling, also, in the lost 15 officers and 300 men in teni
guess-agricultural prices, the drought and the drift to the towns.
Nearing Bayeux we passed many rusting machines of war, which, with occasional slut tered buildings, is all that now remains of the invasion.
For in three years the wild, has covered adi green earth traces of trenches and shell- holes.
shell-burst.
to stand,
great bowls of milk for which we would stop many times a
So to the two cemeteries of day. Douvres and Hermanville, where the Midlands lie Henry V. manor buried, the Warwicks and Wor-
esters, and Shropshires, they Sto the Manor-of-the-
and the Desert Rats.
But not all of them,
men
Turning English, So called because it was built by the men of Henry V.
The massive old tower has twice been liberated-by Joan of Are and, more recently, by the
homewards we crossed the Sane at Font de l'Arche, where the army of Henry V. had done so more than 500 years ago.
A1 Rouen we turned left, swinging down the valley of the Seine to Le Havre, whence our ship steamed To me it all home to Southampton.
For Private Wilkins, Ox, and Bucks L., has not been moved He dug his slit in Escoville Even splintered trees now Cemetery, facing the enemy, Gay Gordons.. look as if they have been struck and slumped down into it when seemed like a homecoming. Farewell, fair Normandy, land of by lightning rather than by the sniper got him.
Over the Vie at Grandchamp,
And every
the good the scene of our night crossing, Bayeux, no longer crowded out by sweating, excited soldiery people of the village walk across fiercely opposed. Up the steep back for a day from the mur- from their own war memorial hill beyond it, upon which many derous fighting in the bocage. service, and hold another over a gallant Highlander fell three In the cathedral one small his lone grave. plaque commemorates the dead
year
of one infantry brigade, the Over the Orne
only sign 1.could
in the sec
the Ornc at town that a British army had WE crossed passed that way. Outside it, in "Pegasus" Bridge, captured the cemetery, le 4,000 of our intact by the Airborne boys. dead; buried as they happened But the gliders which surround to be brought in from beach or ed it have now all gone, for fire- hedgerow, they lie serried.
tank
wood.
to be
years ago.
Then a short, shady ride to La Forge Vallee, the stud farm for inany years in charge of a York- shireman.
"Do you remember a tall Eng. lish girl with a bicycle, who was here in the yard when you all arrived?" he asked. "Well, she's Mme. A. You will pass her lovely chateau on your way."
It seemed a pity to puss it,
Naval officer by the side of driver R.A.S.C., pilot alongside Through Ranville, the first
all France crow, Name, number, place in regiment, and date of death is liberated. Its capture, by 13th painted in black on white on a (Lancashire) Parachute Bat The German way
metal cross.
talion, is commemorated by a Or there is perhaps just "An. tablet let into a wall: Unknown British Private."
Memory of 1066
DURING dinner Mme. A told
us how a German general In Herouviliette we turned hud his H.Q. in the chateau, right, opposite the garage doors and how he came into her room on which is still painted "Road for a chat while she was wash- Touring ing the clothes of two escaping under Observation.
American airmen.
RETURNING by the museum, deadly!"
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We visited the famous tapestries, recording, in
And so into Escoville. into scenes, the Norman invasion of which. I had once led a patrol, But now, in broad daylight, it
1066.
NANCY
Smear Campaign
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING SO SMUG ABOUT WITH
YOUR MUDDY
FEET ?
I WONDER WHAT HE'S BEEN UP
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And that the telephone, line was once cut by discontented Germany, who did not want to go
history and memories, with your smiling Gelds, your leafy avenues. cafes, your turt ckler, and your your lovely old houses, your little
enormous incals.
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Hall to- the envoy of the nations, Who comes beneath the acgis
of the. Society for Cultural Relations,
To lecture at Bognor Regis.
By train and bus to enlighten Those who are in the gravest need
Of Intellectual nourishment, et
Brighton.
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