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All three companies were ordered to occupy their objectives and it was intended to launch A Company to clear and mop up Jumbo Copse as soon as dawn broke.

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Regimental headquarters were in the orchard at point C, with A Company just north in the same area as the 3-inch mortar platoon. The commanding officer managed to procure the services of the 81st Field Regiment should it be "essential to the success of the operation.

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The Regiment moved from Le Haut du Bosq to an assembly area at Colleville about the level-crossing, arriving by hrs. Here it harboured, prepared for the attack and had a meal. At hrs. Captain Cooper was killed in the mill after bayoneting several Germans. C Company advanced round the southern edge of Horseshoe Copse to within fifty yards of Tiny Copse, where it came under heavy machine-gun fire which pinned it to the ground.

Serjeant Clarke, alone and without orders, went forward into Tiny Copse to emerge a few moments later driving a German prisoner in front of him and carrying a German machine gun over his shoulder. C Company fought hand-to-hand in Tiny Copse until aboiit hrs. Hazell, who was wounded, decided that the position was untenable and ordered the remnants of C Company to withdraw.

It was found later that all the section commanders except one had been killed fighting in the copse. B Company got into its objective—Cahier—and had a platoon beyond when it came under very heavy mortar fire which killed or wounded all the officers of the company. What happened after that is not clear, but a party of some twenty men under Serjeants Bowers and Humphries went off to the avenue, where they engaged the enemy's headquarters and captured twenty prisoners, while the remainder of B Company stood off from Cahier and kept it under fire.

The platoon south-west of Cahier at dawn came under heavy mortar fire and some sixteen of the platoon became casualties. At about hrs. No information had been sent back since B Company had come under fire owing to the signallers being wounded. Major Callingham collected a party of some twenty-five men to the north-east of Cahier and kept it under fire. Captain Holden returned to Regimental headquarters, where he gave a most lucid and calm account of the engagement before being evacuated.

It was now clear that the time had come to launch A Company to the counter-attack. Artillery now being available, it was arranged that three field regiments should support the attack. Major Livingstone, commanding A Company, went forward and carried out a reconnaissance about midday with a view to putting in the attack at hrs.

While he was away the artillery plan was worked out by the commanding officer with Colonel Tyler of the 81st Field Regiment. Meanwhile Captain Taylor and two sections of the carrier platoon, which had been engaging the enemy frontally ever since H hour, worked forward, clearing the hedgerows, until they reached the copses and joined A Company on the objective.

The whole operation was handled in a most masterly manner by Major Livingstone, who successfully controlled the fire of three field regiments and the Regimental 3-inch mortars on his No. At the same time the commanding officer had arranged for the 1st Manchesters to support the attack with two platoons of medium machine guns from the high ground north of Grainville-sur-Odon. Their task was to put down indirect fire west of a north-south line running through Cahier and Mon-ceaux about a mile due south of Cahier ; and to fire their twelve 4.

It became clear as soon as A Company's attack developed that the enemy had had enough. Nevertheless, Lieutenant Paget's platoon, handled in a very efficient way, inflicted considerable casualties on the enemy before and while the enemy was withdrawing. By hrs. The Regiment was relieved by the 2nd Monmouthshires and moved back to rest at hrs. Eighteen German machine guns were captured. The fighting was fierce in its intensity, as will be shown by B Company losing all its officers and C Company having one man in four killed.

The total of wounded other ranks in the Regiment after the battle of Cahier was ninety-three, and of missing other ranks eighteen. Total casualties in the Regiment after the battle of Cahier Officers. Other Ranks. A conservative estimate of German casualties inflicted by the Regiment was: , including forty-five dead counted on the field. This figure of forty-five dead does not cover the area beyond the objective and so makes no allowance for casualties caused by mortar, artillery and machine-gun fire in those areas. In addition prisoners were taken including two officers. The morning after the battle a regimental serjeant-major of one of the German regiments surrendered, saying that he had had enough.

The following day we cleared the battlefield and the dead were buried in a military cemetery near Brouay churchyard. On the evening of the 17th the Regiment moved back to a rest area near Mouen While there some enemy aircraft dropped bombs, causing some casualties. On the 27th another move brought it to Bougy , where it relieved the 1st East Lancashire Regiment. Here it was hi close contact with the enemy, a battalion of the th Infantry Division, which it had fought on the 16th July. Deserters came in at an average rate of two a day. AUGUST The beginning of the month found the Regiment in company positions at Gouvry receiving spasmodic attention from enemy artillery and mortars.

Jenkins , supported by C Squadron, th R. The company formed up in an orchard, but was there subjected to heavy enemy mortar and machine-gun fire and it was decided to call off the raid.

Very soon after this the enemy withdrew and there followed a few quiet days spent in positions overlooking Evrecy, with carrier outposts on the bridges at Le Locheur. It was in this position on the 8th August that Major F. Howard, M.

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On the 9th August the Regiment was ordered to concentrate hi the Bougy area ready to move forward. There followed days and nights of movement. On the 12th August the Regiment moved in troop-carrying vehicles to the River Orne, debussed and crossed it on foot, marching on to Neumer and later to the north-west corner of the Foret de Cinglais. This heat, which had lasted since early in the month, brought many flies. It increased the unpleasant smell from dead cattle and caused a number of troops to suffer from diarrhoea. Livingstone, M.

This was to be a silent attack with artillery support on call, using darkness to effect surprise. Owing to delay in starting, these companies did not reach A Company's quarry till hrs. Accordingly, the advance continued, with C Company, commanded by Major N. Callingham, leading. The leading platoons of C Company advanced to within fifty yards of the cross-roads before encountering opposition. Here they came under heavy small-arms fire which included machine-gun fire from an enemy tank. It appeared that the leading platoons had overrun some of the enemy posts without having disturbed them.

The leading platoons at once deployed and returned the fire, but owing to the mist became separated from the remainder of the company. Major Callingham deployed the remaining platoon and company headquarters on the left of the road and continued to work forward, capturing several prisoners and wiping out an enemy patrol, until held up yards from the cross-roads. By this time the mist had lifted. In the meantime B Company, commanded by Major D.

Taylor, had deployed on the right of the road and attempted to work forward. During these operations Major D. Taylor was wounded. Both companies accordingly withdrew behind a firm base found by D Company.


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Captain D. Humphreys, second-in-command of C Company, and Lieutenant S. Middlebrook were wounded in this action. An enemy counter-attack later that evening was dispersed by artillery fire, and at hrs. On its relief the Regiment moved to an orchard in rear of its position and later carried out a night march to Acqueville.

The regiment was officially formed in when the 30th and 59th Regiments of Foot were merged as part of the Childers Reforms, however the Regiment can trace its history back nearly years prior to this date.

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The Regiment spent a number of its early years as a Marines unit and took part in the War of the Spanish Succession fighting at the capture and defence of Gibraltar — and the taking of Barcelona. In the Regiment was converted to conventional infantry and served once again in Gibraltar during the siege of It went on to serve during the War of Austrian Succession.

The 30th went on to serve during the Seven Years' War in raids on the French coast, most notably the taking of the French warship Belleisle and then the American War of Independence at the battle of Eutaw Springs and in the West Indies. In all Regiments without Royal titles were awarded county titles in order to aid recruitment from that area therefore the 30th became the 30th Cambridgeshire Regiment of Foot. During the Napoleonic Wars the Regiment moved to Egypt in to repel the French invasion and then took part in the Peninsular War fighting at the battles of Badajoz and Salamanca and at the Battle of Waterloo The 59th were stationed in Boston at the outbreak of the American War of Independence, it served in the Flanders campaign and in the West Indies during the French Revolutionary Wars — War Memories of Lt.


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