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Hit the Beach by David Pentland. 50th Division, Gold Beach, D-Day, 6th June 1944. British Infantry, Royal Engineers and Medics of the 50th Division scramble ashore during the initial wave onto Gold Beach under the guns of Hitler's Atlantic Wall. The first wave of the 50th Division was made up of the 6th Green Howards landing on King Beach and the 1st Dorsets and the 1st Royal Hampshires landing on Jig Beach, two of the three sectors of Gold Beach. |
Hampshire Regiment by Harry Payne. No text for this item |
D-Day Gold Beach, 6th June 1944 by Simon Smith. Troops of the 1st Hampshires assaulting Gold Beach during the Normandy Landings. Gold beach was one of the British beaches on D-Day. Gold beach was the western most beach of the British beaches, on D-Day. Gold beach was between two twenty metre high cliffs where German fortifications had been built. The beach had been protected by concrete casemates which took some time to break through. This happened with support form British tanks in the afternoon of D-day 6th June. The British tanks and reinforcements moved off the beaches towards Saint-Come-de-Fresene and Arromanches which were both liberated by 9pm. |
Second Lieutenant Dallas-Moor Rallies A Detachment Which Had Momentarily Broken Before A Furious Turkish Assault. The Allies made a third great attempt to capture the heights of Achi Baba and Krithia on June 4th 1915, and after a hard struggle an advance was made of abut five hundred yards on a front of three miles, and two lines of Turkish trenches were occupied. On June 5th the Turks made a furious assault on the British, and a detachment of a battalion, whose officers had fallen, broke for a moment and began to retire. Realizing the danger to the rest of the line, Second-Lieutenant George Raymond Dallas-Moor, of the 3rd Battalion The Hampshire Regiment, who was about two hundred yards away on the left, dashed back and rallied the men. He then led them forward and recaptured the lost trench. Lieutenant Dallas-Moor only joined the army in October of 1914, but his bravery and presence of mind on this occasion saved a dangerous situation. He was awarded the V.C. |
The Hampshire Regiment by Richard Simkin No text for this item |
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