About this Event
D-Day: The Beginning of the End
“It was wonderfully, wonderfully done!” (Trooper Lawrence Burn, 13th/18th Hussars, 1924-2023).
Churchill said that victory at El Alamein in November 1942 was not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning. And there was indeed a long way to go before the end really began. But when and how did the beginning actually begin?
Speaker: Brigadier (retd) Allan Mallinson, late The Light Dragoons, military obituarist for The Times, author of the Matthew Hervey series of novels and of military history, including “The Making of the British Army”, “Too Important for the Generals”, “The Shape of Battle”.
Timings: Drinks (pay bar) from 630pm, Talk + Q&A 7:15-8:15pm, pay bar resumes thereafter.
Venue: Village Hall, St Mary Bourne (SP11 6BE)
All profits to The Poppy Appeal and St Peter's Church, St Mary Bourne
Photo: A Sherman DD tank of 13th/18th Royal Hussars in action on a glider landing ground near Ranville, Normandy on 10 June 1944.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St Mary Bourne Village Centre, Bourne Meadow, Andover, United Kingdom
GBP 10.00
