Memorial

Parachute Regiment and the Merville Battery Assault

Source: C. Poole

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Current Location

Merville Battery Assault Memorial, Inkpen to Combe Road (near Walbury Hill), Inkpen, Newbury, Berkshire, RG19 7EL, England

SU 37021 62073

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Type of Memorial: Stone of remembrance
WMR Reference Number: 104774
Description: Large cube-shaped, rough-hewn stone with two descriptive engraved plaques.
Inscription: Plaque 1: The Merville Battery / World War Two (1939 - 45) / In the fields and woods below / this hill in May 1944 the 9th / Battalion The Parachute Regiment / Commanded by Lt Col T.B.H. Otway. / DSO. rehearsed plans for their / successful assault on the German / Coastal Artillery Battery at Merville, / France, before the Seaborne Troops / landed in the invasion of Normandy / on the 6th of June 1944. // Plaque 2: Established by kind permission of / Richard Astor, Esq. / and unveiled on 22nd May 1993 by / J.P. Henderson, CVO, OBE, Esq. / Lord Lieutenant, / Royal County of Berkshire.

Unveiled

22 May 1993

J P Henderson, CVO, OBE, Lord Lieutenant;

Stone of remembrance

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good

Plaques

Made from: Unknown

Condition: Good