Wednesday
28 June 1944
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War Office map with kind permission of Normandy War Guide
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Bn prepared for operation ABERLOUR. A section of the Carrier Pl was sent with tanks to help 8th Bde attack. The above operation was later cancelled.
Intermittent enemy shelling during the day caused four casualties at 'A' Echelon area. Two of these were fatal.
Five prisoners were sent in from E.Y. (*Probably 2nd Bttn East Yorkshire Regiment)
D-Day+
22
28 June 1944
Men of the 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment take cover behind a bank as an enemy shell explodes nearby, Normandy, France, 19 July 1944. By Christie (Sgt), No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit - http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//39/media-39114/large.jpgThis photograph B 7683 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24489532
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Died on this day =
1
Wednesday
28 June 1944
4
Wounded on this day =
Pte H. V. Iles | 4751117 | Possibly wounded by enemy shell fire | |
Pte F.J.S. Cook | 5501025 | Possibly wounded by enemy shell fire | |
Pte Kenneth Owen | 3194630 | Possibly wounded by enemy shell fire | |
Pte Robert Alcorn | 3196610 | Possibly wounded by enemy shell fire |