Lion, Sword and June
(Thanks for Rob Bakewell for this)
The route can be downloaded as a Mapsource file here.
The route visits:
Bayeux War Museum. Opening hours: 09:30 until 18:30
Bayeux military cemetary – 4,144 burials. The largest WW2 cemetary in Normandy.
Bayeux Memorial – 1,800 names of the missing
Underwater Wrecks Museum. Opening hours: 10:00 until 12:00 and 14:00 until 18:00. May be closed.
Longues Battery – 4x casemates, each with a 155mm gun. Three guns were destroyed by HMS Ajax firing 114 rounds. The fourth gun recommenced firing in the afternoon, but was silenced after a duel with the French cruiser ‘Georges Leygues’. The battery is thought to have fired 115 shells.
Port Winston, the Mulberry Harbour at Arromanches
Arromanches 360 – open 10:10 until 17:40. Entrance fee: €4.20
Green Howards Memorial, Crepon – popularly supposed to be CSM Stan Hollis VC.
Juno Beach
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian CWGC – 2048 burials incl nine pairs of brothers (Blais, Boyd, Branton, Hadden, Hobbin, Mekin, Skwarchuk, Tadgell & White) and one trio of brothers:
B/131131 Rfn Thomas Lee Westlake, QOR, III.D.7
B/68737 Rfn Albert Norman Westlake, QOR, III.D.8
B/63018 Pvt George Westlake, NS Highlanders, VIII.F.12
Sword Beach
Montgomery Statue in Colleville-Montgomery.
The Grand Bunker Museum – Ouistreham. Opening hours: 10:00 until 18:00. Entrance fee: €6
RN Memorial at Ouistreham.
Merville Battery – Opening times: 09:30 until 18:00. Entrance fee: €5
Ranville CWGC – 2,235 burials, Airborne Museum – Opening hours: 09:30 until 18:30. Entrance fee: €6 and Pegasus Bridge – Café Gondree
Fort Hillman– captured by 1Suffolks. Pvt J.R.Hunter awarded DCM.
Villers-Bocage. Site of Michael Wittman’s action.
