My Uncle was killed in France on the 29.08.1944 aged 21 and i have located three serviving members who went across to Normandy on D-Day + 9 landing at Juno Beach.
My late father never got over the death of his older brother. My uncle's storey is told in the last letter he sent home to his Auntie who had brought my father his two brothers and sister up following the death of their mother in 1932.
The Tank is still in France and i am collecting an ammunitions box which was taken from the site the day after their Sherman was stopped by a German Bazooka.
A local man who was 16 at the time wrote to me and wishes to return it.
My Uncles kit bag is at Bovinton Tank Museum but i will probably give this to his regiment in Cupar who have set up their own museum.
I would love to hear from relitives whose loved ones died that day in Etrepagny.
2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and the 3rd Monmouthshire Regiment.
James McEwan Trooper 2nd F&FY
Edmund Whatmough Corporal 2nd F&FY
David Sutherland Trooper 2nd F&FY
William Reginald Harbone 3rd Bn Monmouthswhire Regiment
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