Armed forces day 27th June 2009

A flag was raised for the forthcoming Armed Forces Day .President, Chairman and members of the of the legion were in attendance.

A visit to Tolverne Cornwall one which I have made many times.This one was on the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings 6th June

A reminder of those days
Tolverne is a small landing stage where members of the 29th Infantry left England to attack Omaha Beach. Tolverne is situated north of the King Harry Ferry crossing on the river Fal, again north of Falmouth, Cornwall.

The whole of Great Britain was a vast armed camp by 1944. For D-Day the British/Canadian's were held in camps from Bournemouth on the south coast all the way up to the north sea ports. The Americans used the west of Britain from Poole, Dorset all the way around the coast to Bristol, South Wales and Northern Ireland.

To load soldiers, their vehicles and equipment onto landing craft they needed 'Hard's' a place where LST's (Landing Ship Tanks) could drive bow first onto a HARD (beach) and open their doors and lower a loading ramp.

Visit to St Mawes

Jo and I have been frequent visitors to St Mawes over the years . One of the interesting sites has always been the Gig club practice rowing nights normally Tuesdays and Thursdays. As some of there members contributed to winning the world championship I thought that I should offer my congratulations from the Lyme Regis Gig Club. Some pictures of there rowing nights are enclosed with more to follow.They have four Gig's. One only for championship racing,two for practice nights and the other for racing. They have a very keen junior section and we know what the ladies can do ! Take note of the name of the red Gig named after the man who built the first Gig in the Roseland

St Just in Roseland Cornwall