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Tuesdy 5.0 pm
1/7/58 Ack 19/6/58
Dear Miss Isaacs
I'll try and give you my outline for "D-day"
We dropped at approx 0050 hrs The drop as far as
I'm concerned was a comfortable drop The drop as
a whole was haphazard owing to flak I'll landed in
a field expectn to see hundreds of us all I saw was
the silloette of Pte Bert Hull who was in the same
platoon I picked him out in mid-air The pass-word
was Punch-Judy Bert called "punch" I replied
unregimental "Sid Capon" Thank christ for that he
said I've lost everything bar a few grenades etc.
We proceeded to the rendezvous where on our way
we met Sgt Sid Knight and later a Lt Dowling
with a bunch of men
The rendezvous was dissapoiting especially when
the move off was given 150 men out of 600
We reached the Battery and lay in wait Alan
Jefferson gave us the orders to attack He carried
a little horn blowing it as we attacked
Lt Alan Jefferson was wounded I think he trod on
a mine just to the right of me he still was blowing
that horn I carried on shoutung and firing the only
word^was calling the Germans illegitimate The 2 Germans
I'll always recall coming out of a trench Red X
box in there hands first + the Germans pushing
each-- other out of that gun battery Pvt Johnny Walker
Pvt Frank Delsijnone Sgt Eric Bedford Pvt Bert Hull + myself
were at thatgun
We retreated with prisoners + came under fire from
a machine gun nest to the right of the battery Thus surrendered
outside I remember him shouting "get in get in" to Lt Dowling who
was over to my left I think he was killed
We proceeded to Le Plein --- Prior to this we collected
the wounded I remember pulling them to one place
another likeable chap who was also doing this war
Sgt Jenkins (Paddy) A Company
We then came under ---- terrific bombing by our
own planes bits + pieces of human body were