2014 – Goodwood Revival
The 70th anniversary events in Normandy were momentous and certainly captured the attention of world media. So once we returned home (and after a big sleep!) we began to think…
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2014 – 70th Anniversary
Sunday 1st to Monday 9th June 2014 In some ways the 70th Anniversary had started four weeks earlier for us on Sunday 3rd May, with the launch of the Millin-Montgomery…
2014 – Millin-Montgomery Voyage Ch. 11 – NORMANDY
ARRIVAL AT DESTINATION: SWORD BEACH & COLLEVILLE-MONTGOMERY Tuesday 3rd June. At 10am the D-Day Revisited Group of Normandy Veterans visited the Portsmouth D-Day Museum. John Millin was especially welcomed by…
2014 – Millin-Montgomery Voyage Ch. 12 – OMAHA
THE FINAL CEREMONY OMAHA BEACH According to the original plan the 70th Anniversary Voyage was over, complete. The Millin-Montgomery Pipes had been played in and out of twenty one ports…
2014 – Millin-Montgomery Voyage Ch. 10 – PORTSMOUTH
THE FINAL STAGE – ARRIVAL INTO PORTSMOUTH’S HISTORIC DOCKYARD Due to increasingly demanding needs of the forthcoming 70th Anniversary Normandy Week, the Millin-Montgomery Voyage was faced with the need for…
2014 – Millin-Montgomery Voyage Ch. 9 DARTMOUTH
DARTMOUTH: TRIBUTE TO THE 946 OF OPERATION TIGER The 26th of May was a fine Bank Holiday Monday, with a fairly clear sky and calm sea conditions. The former WW2…
2014 – Millin-Montgomery Voyage Ch. 8 – SOUTH COAST
THE CHANNEL COAST – PORTS OF EMBARKATION Happily the Skipper of TS Jack Petchey, Colin Watkins, had agreed to take Karl and the Millin-Montgomery Pipes on the next stage of…
2014 – Millin-Montgomery Voyage Ch. 7 – CORNWALL
PADSTOW AND THE U.S. 121st COMBAT ENGINEER BATTALION The diving boat, Predator, was played out of Pembroke Dock on the morning of Friday 16th May, aiming to make the crossing…
2014 – Millin-Montgomery Voyage Ch. 6 – WALES
ENGLAND TO WALES TO ENGLAND The original plan was to stay in Liverpool over the weekend, then depart for Conway on Monday morning 12th May. Unfortunately we hit a period…
2014 – Millin-Montgomery Voyage Ch. 5 – IRELAND
SCOTLAND TO IRELAND TO ENGLAND – Memories from Royal Ulster Rifles Veteran John Shanahan and his partner Beryl Dibble “On arrival in Stranraer, Lt.Munns and Crew on HMS Tracker gave…