National Archive Reference: WO 171/1251
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Place | Date | Hour | Summary of Events and Information |
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CHARING. | 1-6 | Troops trained on The Stone Street Training Area. | |
6 | D. day Everyone one was remarkably unmoved by the tremendous | ||
news and in fact some people even thought that the announcement | |||
was a hoax. | |||
Most of the next weeks were spent in loading and weighing trials | |||
14 | The Bde Commander inspected vehicles of the Bn loaded as for | ||
war. | |||
15 | The first night of which VI appeared over South East England | ||
in large numbers. They were regarded at first as being rather | |||
a joke. During the next week however large numbers of A.A. guns | |||
were moved init the area and rest was rather disturbed. | |||
24 | Bde workshops were hit by a pilotless aircraft causing a large | ||
number of fatal casualties. Volunteers from the Bn helped to | |||
clear up aand dig the communual grave. | |||
25 | Funeral for the victims at Bde workshops. Representatives of the |
Place | Date | Hour | Summary of Events and Information |
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Bn attended | |||
28 | The Bn informed the CO that it was ready to move. | ||
29 | Capt Farrell from the 3rd Scots Guards who went over to Normandy | ||
with HQ 30 Corps on D day and stayed there until D+15, gave | |||
all officers a very interesting account of the campaign bringing | |||
out valuable lessons. |