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My Dad Thomas Yearsley of Cerne Abbas, Dorset joined the Dorset Regiment of the Light Infantry but was transferred to the 7th Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry and was posted to A Company. I believe he sailed from Tilbury on D Day landing near Courselles sur Mer and fought through the Normandy Campaign. In 1996 he unveiled a plaque in the village of Lenault commemorating the liberation of the village by the 7th Battalion 43 Wessex Division. I had a couple of holidays in Normandy with my dad and it brought it home to me how grateful we should be to the many men and women who lost their lives during the Battle of Normandy. In 1998 I took him back to Vernon as this is where his war came to an end, after he was captured by the Germans during the battle that took place there and we found the memorial to the regiment in a beautiful spot on the riverbank, the opposite spot to where he was captured. I believe he was taken to Amiens and then to a work camp in Munich, although he rarely talked about it.

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