From the North Cape to Greece to Iceland to Portugal to Scotland to the Baltics
Dedicated to the Soldiers from Portree and its neighbourhood on the Isle of Skye, which all served together in D Company, 4th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, who were killed in the evening of May 17 1915 during the Battle of Festubert.
The commune of Trouville-sur-Mer is successively occupied by the Infanterie-Division from 1940 to January 1941, the 225. Infanterie-Division until June 1941, the 332. Infanterie-Division until January 1942 and finally the 711. Infantry Division.
On 17 August 1944, more than two months after D-Day, the British launched Operation Paddle in the direction of the Seine. The Belgian and Luxembourg soldiers of the “Brigade Piron” (1st Belgian independent group attached to the 6th Airborne Division) are in the front line in the race towards the Seine.
On August 24, two days after the capture of Deauville under the fire of the Germans of the 711. Infantry-Division, the Piron brigade must cross the Touques River but its adversary destroyed the bridges spanning it. Some soldiers swim, others employ makeshift means designed by the sappers. Meanwhile, the German artillery is carrying out several barrage shots in the area. Resistance fighters, already engaged in Deauville to help the Allied soldiers, once again guide the Belgian and Luxembourg soldiers who seize the entire city.
The cliffs near Near Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer (Omaha Beach)
