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Before D-Day
Pvt Dunk asked Sidney Capon + Lt Alan
Jefferson if they would witness his
will in which he left all his wordly
possessions to his fiancee They signed
it He was killed later
On D-Day
Lt Alan Jefferson blew horn a
hunting horn - as they went into attack
battery He stood on wine and although
wounded continued blowing horn
And in between blasts yelled "carry
on" He was short , thick-set , strong
extremely polite Was wounded in
legs by mines
First person Capon saw on landing
was Pvt Bert Hull (see 9) Lt Dowling
an Irishman was later killed at battery
(see 9 ) also by mine
He remembered seeing two Germans
coming out of sat trench within battery
- one of them with a Rex X box in
his hands The Red X presumabley to
indicate that he wanted to surrender
other Germans were pushing one another
out many of them shouting "Ruski
Ruski"

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