We are trying to contact as many people as possable who where in Bockhampton and Stinsford, Dorset, England, during WW2 especially.
AMERICAN GIS FROM THE BIG RED ONE, 1ST INFANTRY DIVISION, 18TH INFANTRY REGT
Based in Puddletown, Yellowham Woods, Bockhampton and Dorchester in Dorset, England.
(HQ COY AND CP AT ILSINGTON HOUSE, PUDDLETOWN near DORCHESTER, UNDER COL GEORGE SMITH JR.) and embarked for Omaha at Weymouth in England.
Where you from 66TH CAVALRY RECON TROOP - RADIO OPERATORS (PUDDLETOWN) from 66TH INFANTRY DIVISION, BLACK PANTHERS 20TH ENGINEERS COY (YELLOWHAM WOODS) 773 TANK DESTROYER BATTALION FROM THE 6TH TD GROUP 348TH BEACH GROUP FROM 643RD MEDICAL CLEARING COMPANY
* Do you remember the GI's here before D-Day?
* Do you remember the earley 40's when the Royal Army Medical Corps were at Kingston Maurward, or later when it was a US fuel dump for D-Day?
* Where you evacuated to Stinsford/Bockhampton? What can you remember?
D-DAY/JUNE 1944 - WERE YOU HERE?
CONTACT : STINSFORD & BOCKHAMPTON VILLAGE HISTORY GREENWOOD COTTAGE, LOWER BOCKHAMPTON, DORCHESTER, DORSET. DT2 8PZ. UK. sbvh@aaugonline.net