No 3 Commando & Brigadier Peter Young Memorial
This is at Petiville and was inaugurated on the 50th Anniversary by a delegation of Commandos and veterans. In the Mairie are a picture of the Brigadier and a Commando dagger that were presented the same day. The Commandos liberated the village on 17 August. The Brigadier, as Lieutenant Colonel Peter Young, DSO, MC, Commanded No. 3 Commando, part of 1st Special Service Brigade, which landed in the Ouistreham area with orders to clear the town and to link up with the airborne forces at Pegasus Bridge. This they did by the end of D-Day but were unable to clear the high ground further inland
Picture No
12547996
Media ID
45764085
Size
2120px x 2816px
(1.6MB)
Credit
© Holt's Battlefield Collection / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Tonie and Valmai Holt - Holts' Battlefield Collection
Date
2009
