St.Valery-en-Caux, 1940 & 2007

Discussion in '1940' started by Owen, Sep 5, 2007.

  1. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    edit:2015 replaced most of the photos


    Hello everyone I'm back.
    Thanks to the DNS playing up I posted these on Saturday night when I got back but I was on the ghost site and only I could see them.
    The good folks on WWIIForum have seen them , now it's your turn.
    The then pictures all come from Saul David's book Churchill's Sacrifice of the Highland Division.
    Here is Rommel and Gen. Fortune after 51st Highland Div surrendered at St. Valery-en-Caux, June 1940.
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    Then my daughter as Rommel, me as Gen. Fortune and the boys as the British Officers.
    2007 1.jpg
    Notice how buildings in background are in the same place between our shoulders.

    edit: click pics to make bigger
     
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  2. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Then on the way up to the French memorial I took this Then & Now shot.

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    2007 4.jpg
     
  3. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Here is the French Memorial on the opposite cliff to the 51st Highland Division one.


    edit : I seem to have lost/deleted the photo since 2007.
    It's not on the disc with the others from the trip there.
     
  4. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    51st Div Memorial.
    2007 2.jpg

    It was in this area that to escape the Germans some British soldiers tied rifle slings together to make ropes to drop down the cliffs, some died as in the dark they didn't know if the rope was long enough.
    The cliffs are very high as you'll see here.
    2007 3.jpg
     
  5. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Old Hickory Recon

    Good pics, Owen. Once again, y'all who live around the history are making me jealous.

    Your daughter looks much more attractive than the Desert Fox. The boys and you, well if you had uniforms on...dead ringers.
     
  6. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    The Franco-British Cemetery.
    This was a lovely spot, a sunny day too was nice as rest of that week was rather wet.

    edit: again had more photos than this , these only 2 I have on disc.
     

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  7. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

    Great photos Owen. Although you don't look too happy in the first photo. ;)
     
  8. Owen

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  9. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Exactly, the French had surrendered, the Highlanders wanted to go on fighting but a tank had parked outside my HQ and called for me to give up the fight, I'm now of to an Oflag for 5 years.
     
  10. CROONAERT

    CROONAERT Ipsissimus

    Nice pics, Owen. Thanks for posting them.

    Dave (you didn't happen to take any close-ups of the French graves did you, by any chance?)
     
  11. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    No sorry mate.
    I've only a 256mb card in my camera and we filled that up, must get a 1Gb one.
     
  12. spidge

    spidge RAAF RESEARCHER

    Good photos Owen.

    Like Slipdigit, I am jealous of your ability to get to these places so easily.
     
  13. deadb_tch

    deadb_tch the deadliest b#tch ever

    DOUBLE LOL, Owen, your Rommel-style shot is fun like hell :)) Your children might will be most hardened WW2-related people in future all-over UK :))
     
  14. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

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  15. Jaeger

    Jaeger Senior Member

    Blimey, even the clouds look similar.
     
  16. Paul Reed

    Paul Reed Ubique

    Good Then & Now, Owen.
     
  17. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    From The History Of The 51st Highland Division 1939-1945 by JB Salmond.
    The Unveiling of the Memorial at St Valery - en -Caux on the 10th Anniversary of the battle, 10th June 1950
     

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  18. Deadly Birds

    Deadly Birds Senta a PĂșa!

    Owen
    Very very nice pics


    Regards
    Adriano
     
  19. phylo_roadking

    phylo_roadking Very Senior Member

    Rommel himself was a keen photographer - he took THIS shot of his own men when they reached the Channel under those same cliffs...

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  20. Verrieres

    Verrieres no longer a member

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    Stained Glass Window
    A gift from the people of the Highlands of Scotland to the town of St Valery en Caux, commemorating the combined action of 1940 against the superior forces of Rommel and the eventual liberation of the town in 1944
    The window shows a landscape relating to the town and harbour during the action of 1940 and subsequent liberation in 1944
    Regards
    Verrieres
     

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