Official history of 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles during World War 2 - Sword Beach to Bremen
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Introduction
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The Battalion was first introduced to combined operations in this war when it was sent for a period of training to The Combined Training Cen...
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Build up to D-Day
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For ten days prior to D Day the Battalion, with Lt-Colonel I. C. Harris in command, and with Major B. J. FitzG Donlea, MC, as Second in Comm...
D-Day Crossing
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Officers and men were split up into their various boat loads, and on D minus 2 started to embark on Landing Craft Infantry. One might have ...
6th June - The Normandy landing
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At 1000 hours on D Day, the 6th June, 1944, the Landing Crafts Infantry containing the Battalion touched down on the beach of Normandy at a ...
7th June - First attack on Cambes Wood
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On the 7th June, the Battalion was ordered to move in a South Westerly direction to capture Cambes, a small village thickly wooded, and app...
8th June - Reconnaissance of Cambes Wood
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On the 8th June, the Commanding Officer made a reconnaissance for a Battalion attack on Cambes, this time attacking from the village of Afis...
9th June - The taking of Cambes Wood
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On the 9th June 1944 the Battalion attacked and captured Cambes. The attack was fiercely resisted by the Germans, and the Battalion, two th...
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9th June to 3rd July - Cambes Wood
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We took Cambes Wood on June 9th 1944 and left it on July 3rd. During that period two Battalions of the Brigade were in Cambes Wood and the ...
8th July 1944 - Bieville and Lebisey Wood
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The Battalion first heard that it was to have the honour of leading the Allied Armies into Caen on the afternoon of 7th July 1944. After th...
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