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Tuesday 5.0 pm
1/7/58 Ack 19/6/58
Dear Miss Isaacs

I'll try and give you my outline for "D-Day."
We dropped at approx 0050 hrs. The drop as far as
I'm concerned was a comfortable drop. The drop as
a whole was haphazard owing to flak. I'll landed in
a field expecting to see hundreds of us all I saw was
the silloette of Pte Bert Hull who was in the same
platoon. I picked him out in mid-air The pass-word
was Punch-Judy. Bert called "punch," I replied
unregimental "Sid Capon." Thank christ for that he
said I've lost everything bar a few grenades etc.
We proceeded to the rendezvous where. on our way,
we met Sgt Sid Knight and later a Lt Dowling
with a bunch of men

The rendezvous was dissapointing especially when
the move off was given 150 men out of 600.
We reached the Battery and lay in wait. Alan
Jefferson gave us the orders to attack. He carried
a little horn blowing it as we attacked.
Lt Alan Jefferson was wounded I think he trod on
a mine just to the right of me, he still was blowing
that horn. I carried on shouting and firing. The only
word was calling the Germans illegitimate. The 2 Germans
I'll always recall coming out of a trench Red X
box in there hands first & the Germans pushing
each other out of that gun battery. Pvt Johnny Walker,
Pvt Frank Delsizmore. Sgt Eric Bedford, Pvt Bert Hull & myself
were at that gun.

We retreated with prisoners & came under fire from
a machine gun nest to the right of the battery. They surrendered
outside I remember him shouting "get in get in" to Lt Dowling who
was over to my left. I think he was killed
We proceeded to Le Plein. Prior to this we collected
the wounded I remember pulling them to one place,
another likeable chap who was also doing this was
Sgt Jenkins (Paddy), A Company.

We then came under terrific bombing by our
own planes, bits & pieces of human body were in the
vacinity. I hit the earth & was lucky. Rt.0