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Pont Oxf & Bucks Touques

(France - Basse-Normandie - Touques)

This bridge has been renamed after the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Regiment who liberated the village of Touques on 24 August 1944.

The text on photo n°3:
A la mémoire de
André
Chotard
Mort pour la France
23 Août 1944
et des Soldats Belges
Marcel Fourner
Benjamin Pinkous
de la 2ème Cie Motorisée

The translation of the text:
In memory of
André
Chotard
Died for France
23 August 1944
and the Belgian soldiers
Marcel Fourner
Benjamin Pinkous
from the 2nd Unit

The text on the plaque in the middle of the bridge:
IN MEMORY
OF THE 2nd (GLIDERBORN) BATALLION
OXFORDSHIRE AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
LIGHT INFANTRY WHO ASSAULTED OVER THE RIVER HERE
AND LIBERATED US ON THE 24TH AUGUST 1944

Source

• Text: De Roust Jente
• Photos: De Roust Jente

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