- Contributed byÌý
- CSV Action Desk Leicester
- People in story:Ìý
- JOHN WALFORD and BILL DALE
- Location of story:Ìý
- NORMANDY BEACHES, 'JUNO' SECTOR
- Background to story:Ìý
- Army
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4398799
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 08 July 2005
On June 6th 1944 I was a Captain in the Royal Engineers Movements and Transport Section and along with my colleague Captain Bill Dale, I had been seconded to the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade as a Military Landing Officer. The Army equivalent of a Navy Beachmaster.
We had taken part in the secret planning of the assault. Our job was to fit the troops and their guns and vehicles into various types of landing craft allocated to us by the Royal Navy, commensurate with the Brigade Commander’s overall plan. Once ashore in Normandy on ‘Juno’ Beach, our job was to join up all these small units into their proper formations, ready to go forward to engage the enemy.
‘This story was submitted to the Peoples war site by Rod Aldwinckle of the CSV Action Desk on behalf of Major John Walford R.E. (retired) and has been added to the site with his permission.. The author fully understands the sites terms and conditions’.
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