I have a few months of writing and then the hard work of editing - due to be delivered to Fonthill Media end of year but I am hoping earlier.
Dick Gosling recalls a chance meeting with some former SRY members at one of the veterans' reunions in Le Hamel: "One of the SRY was a crew member of the third Sherman to have been knocked out by the blockhouse gun and described the turret having been blown off, the tank commander losing both legs and the crew managing to get out of the tank and scrambling back seawards to the shelter of the dunes. One of them subsequently crawled back and was able to drive the tank (still just a runner) enough to one side to allow Bob Palmer's SP to get past it to destroy the gun in the blockhouse." Michel
All three battalions of 231 Brigade variously in war diaries, reports and their histories state that Le Hamel and the bunker had not been hit by bombing or bombardment.
