Moffet

Hi - my father Rodger Moffet was 1st Bt KOSB D-Coy. He got as far as Etrepagny and contracted Pleurisy (brought on from his account from being in a heavy waterlogged trench but not sure where). I have some extra information for you:

Father always claimed they landed at 10:10am he was quite adamant about the time. LC Captain rammed the craft up the beach and they landed on dry sand. His Friend Jeff Henderson who was in the same Coy went back to Normandy many times in the years soon after the war and he gave us a hand drawn map of the movements in the first days as well as a long description.

Dad had lots of stories some funny some very grim. His experience of the landing was that he exited the beach via a small road, there were garages on one side and what was left of a patisserie on the other, he noticed that the garages had been crudely painted red then stumbled on something, he went to kick it out the way and realised it was a boot with the foot still in it. Only then did he make sense of the scene, the patisserie window had been booby trapped and some lads from the RUR had went to grab something and were blown up – it wasn’t paint on the garages opposite.