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8 Hawkhurst Road AR[initials red pencil] Extracts[pencil]
Gillingham
Kent.
8 MAY 1958[blue ink stamp]

Re advert E.N. 23.5.58
Dear Sir, Q.S. 28/5/58 [addition in red pencil]
In answer to
your request I should like to state
that I served with 1st Bn South
Lancashire Regt attached to 3rd Infantry
Division, covering the landings from
4th June , and could give accounts from
preparation - Sailing from Portsmouth -
initial landing from sea at Ouistreham.
[crossed out]reliving[end crossed out]relieving 6th Airborne Regt and the
holding of Canal bridge at Caen.
Hoping to be of some
interest to you. and glad to hear that
a book of true facts is in process, as
D. Day to all of us who part in the
initial [crossed out]st[end crossed out] landings is still a vivid