Follow me and my camera
Omaha Beach was one of the five beaches that had to be taken on D Day, 6th July 1944. That task was given to the 1st and 29th Infantry Division of the US Army. To say they took a hammering is an understatement, and General Bradley saw the very grave situation, and one stage nearly [...]
In my last article I talked about Normandy and the battle to take Pegasus Bridge, and in this article I want to talk about the soldiers that didn't come back. Ranville is a town, not too far from Pegasus Bridge and the men that fell in that engagement are buried in the Parish Churchyard. Just [...]
We'd both decided that before we even got here we would have to visit this Churchyard with many of Edinburgh's famous and infamous residents who decided to stay on permanently... JK Rowling used some of the residents' names for her characters in the Harry Potter books. See if you can spot where Tom Riddle is [...]
