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smoke grenades; two smoke flares; capsules of morphine and a hypodermic -
unlike the American GI each of whom carried his own morphine in syrettes -
only British officers and NCOSs carried morphine; - a mausa atomatic inside
his battledress; a shovel; tins of selfheating soups and cocoa; compass
and maps.

As previously mentioned the Company landed off their map east of Le Hamel.

Note CORRECTION - THEY LANDED AT 1000 CIRCLING OFF THE BEACH FROM 0730.
NO TROUBLE CROSSING THE BEACHES. CHANGE NOTE ABOVE ABOUT MINEFIELDS TO
READ "THEY FOUND THEMSELF IN A FIELD OF POPPIES AND SUDDENLY NOTICED A
SIGN SAYING "ACHTUNG MINEN” BUT THEN HE SAW COWS [crossed out]RUNNING[end
crossed out] WANDERING THROUGH
THE FIELD TENDED BY A YOUNG GIRL SO HE FIGURED IT WAS A DUMMY MINEFIELD.

Along the lateral road they were shelled and at one point Lieutenant
Peter Hughes lying beside him in a ditch said ’’You know this is about the
only place that they can’t reach [crossed out]wit[end crossed out] me with the damned Income Tax form”

The extraordinary thing about Goode and his Company was that nothing
happened to them. They marched steadily along until they reached a point
north of Oyes when there was a lot of shooting all around them and Goode
realised that"he had been caught up in somebody elses battle”.
He decided to pull back. He waited for a time and then he was joined by
Colonel Denis Biddle, CO of the 2nd Glosters and [crossed out]they held[end crossed out] then he and
other officers held a conference at the crossroads on the outskirts of
Oyes. He will always remember this conference because there was a lot
of enemy dead all around, many of whom hadbeen badly burned and the bodies
"smelled to high heaven and there was an appalling smell of burnt flesh.”
During the conference the CO told them that there were rumours of enemy
tanks being in the vicinity. He told Goode to push on to Bayeaux or his
secondary objective the St. Suopice heights. So he pushed onfrom the
crossroads. He was later joined by some members of the French resistance
who insisted on coming with him. and he also noticed that tne French
resistance people insisted ontaking German prisoners back to the beaches.
He often wondered what happened to those German prisoners of war. "The
Germans were not fighting well,”he remembers. "Whole groups were surrendering
to us without even a shot being fired.”

Prior to the conference with his Colonel he had been marching steadily
along at the head of his Company when ”he got himself mixed up in somebody
else’s battle”. This had come about because a military policeman had
directed him on to a wrong road. That evening they entered a village
called Magny and he decided to set up his Company HQ in a farm. He sent
on his Lieutenant to reconnoitre the farm building and when he returned
he reported that the place was empty. The 2nd Lieutenant - Lieutenant
Peter Hughes - was asked about the cellar. ”Have you cleared cellars?”
asked Goode. And Goode discovered that he had not. Goode himself went
down to the cellars and in the cellars found not Germans but a large
quantity of cider, eggs and wine - Chateau Neuf de Pape 1921. This made
the whole thing worthwhile for Goode. He promptly sent some wine to his
CO; sent cider out to the men ’’didn’t want them to get too drunk, you know”
also the eggs; and then he and Hughes knocked back a pint of wine with a
couple of raw eggs in it each and inflating his rubber mattress, placed it
in a farmcart filled with straw and climbed into it to spend the night.
Absolutely nothing had happened to the Company throughout the day. They
had marched 15 miles and suffered no casualties. They had killed only 1
German. A fat fellow who was shot off his bicycle in Magny. At midnight
Goode settled down to sleep completely unaware that in a slit trench about
100 yards away from where he was a half a dozen Germans had also settled
down to sleep for the night.

There were rumours all that day that French women were shooting at them.
At one point a Sergeant came up to him and reported this and Goode said
’’Well, shoot back at them.”

To this day he is convinced that the resistance people were marching German
POWs back to the beaches and doing them in.