D Day Eggs Delivery

After landing on ‘D’ day at 0930 hrs on ‘Sword’ Beach with my Battalion - The 2nd Royal Warwicks, I led my Platoon, as a Lieutenant, across the beaches at Lion-Sur-Mer and headed south to the village of HERMANSVILLE. Here we dug-in in a field, outside the church yard, to await further orders. Enemy fire started to fall amongst us when I saw a young boy, aged about 10, walking round our slit trenches, handing out eggs to my soldiers. Fearing that he would be hit by enemy fire, I ran over to the boy and steered him out of danger and back to his home in a nearby farm house, and forgot the incident.

50 years later I was revisiting the area during an anniversary tour of the Normandy battle fields with a group of young soldiers from the Regiment and some friends. While I was describing the battle of Hermansville from the same field a local farmer came out to see what was going on - and recognised me!

He was that boy who had been giving out the eggs to us all those years ago! Ten years later on the 60th anniversary I again visited his farm, but was told that he had sadly died three years earlier!

K.St.B.Adams Lt Col (Retd)

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