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THE SALOPIAN CLUB 5 DAY TOUR TO NORMANDY
CONFIRMATION ITINERARY DATES THURSDAY 15 TO MONDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2016
Contact: Nick Jenkins
Janet Scholes
Guide: Dr Peter Caddick-Adams
Total Passengers / 20 TBC / Itinerary Number / V2Departure Date / 15 Sep 16 / Coach Operator / New Adventure Travel
Return Date / 19 Sep 16 / Coach Size / 34
Departure from Victoria Embankment / 1130 / Crossing Type / Brittany Ferries
Return to Victoria Embankment / 2345 / Outbound Crossing / 2245
Pickup Address / As below / Inbound Crossing / 1630
Accommodation Address / As below
Day 1 Thu 15 Sep
1115 1 x 34 seater executive coach arrives at Victoria Embankment, London
Meet with Guide: Dr Peter Caddick-Adams
Coach Company: New Adventure Travel
Coach Out of Hours Contact:
Drivers Details: TBC
1130 Depart London
1400 Southwick House Map Room, Southwick Park
1500 Depart Southwick Park, Fareham and drive to Portsmouth
1530 D-Day Museum and Overlord Embroidery, Portsmouth - suggestion
Museum closes at 1730hrs in September
1800 Supper in Portsmouth under your own arrangements
2030 Board Ferry – Time critical for Driver’s hours
2245 Brittany Ferries Portsmouth/Caen
Ref: OG54423
We can hold 4 berth cabins to be used as twins and 2 berth cabins for single occupancy
Collect landing rations before we disembark
Day 2 Fri 16 Sep
0645 Arrival at Ouistreham (local time) and proceed to Café Gondree for breakfast
0730 Breakfast - included
Croissant, bread, ham, cheese, butter and jam, tea, coffee and chocolate
1000 Pegasus Bridge and a Museum Booking
Ranville (Norman Field, OS, 6 Airborne Division Staff Officer)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/6366635/Lieutenant-Colonel-Norman-Field.html
Sword Beach (lunch break)
Queen White sector attacked by185 Bde (2 R Warwicks (Kingston Adams OS); 1 Norfolks; 2 KSLI), supported by my own Staffordshire Yeomanry
Strong Point “Hillman”: The German artillery and local headquarters position (one of a number) overlooking Gold Beach. It was constructed underground and would take the Suffolk Regiment 6 hours to capture it, possibly having a major effect on the ability of 3rd Division to capture Caen on D-Day.
1800 Check in to hotel in Caen:
Hotel Des Quatrans
17 rue Gemare – 14 000 Caen
Tel: 0033 231 86 25 57
www.Hotel-des-Quatrans.com
Free evening
Day 3 Sat 17 Sep
0900 Depart hotel
Op PERCH/Villers-Bocage
7 Armoured Division
Lunch break in Villers-Bocage
Op EPSOM/Hill 112
(I suspect many of 159 Brigade (11th Armoured Division) had Salopian or Shrewsbury connections, for it contained4 KSLI, 1 Herefords and 3 Monmouths - all TA regiments.
Op GOODWOOD – Cagny
Op GOODWOOD - Bouguebus Ridge.
1800 Return to hotel
Free Evening
Day 4 Sun 18 Sep
0900 Depart hotel
Monty's Chateau
Bayeux Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
Commemoration/wreath laying
Arromanches, Mulberry Harbour: The unique floating Mulberry Harbours ensured the delivery of combat supplies to the expanding bridgehead. They were a key factor in both enabling the strategic intent and servicing the tactical battle. It also aided the German belief that the Normandy invasion was a decoy for the real attack on Western Europe, as no major port had been assaulted.
Lunch break in Arromanches
Omaha Beach: Where both the 1st and 29th US Divisions landed on the 4 mile beach. The Germans had prepared their positions and battle drills in preparation for a landing. The cliffs and defences being equivalent to a medieval fortress, with the same effect on those who were to be the initial attacking force, as the opening sequence of ‘Saving Private Ryan’ depicts. 34,250 troops would land on Omaha beach on 6 June, of which 3,881 would become casualties.
St Laurent US Cemetery: Situated, overlooking Omaha Beach and maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission, the Normandy American Cemetery and memorial, has 9,387 burials and another 1,557 names on the Memorial in the Garden of Remembrance. There are three Medal of Honor recipients; Sgt Peregory, Lt Monteith and Gen Roosevelt buried in the cemetery.
Advance to St-Lo through the Bocage/Op COBRA Breakout
1800 Return to hotel
Free Evening
Day 5 Mon 19 Sep
0900 Depart Hotel after breakfast
Op Totalize
Closure of the Falaise Pocket
Mont Ormel
1130 Montormel Museum – guided tour – subject to availability
1300 Depart for Ouistreham – check in at 1500 hrs
1630 Inbound Ferry
2115 Arrive UK local time and drive to London
2345 approx Arrive Victoria Embankment, London.
Your itinerary may be subject to change at short notice due to a variety of factors. Whilst every effort will be made by the guides to visit all the sites included in your itinerary, there may be times when this will not be possible.
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