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Ken A for Andy Bystram

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Death of Denis Edwards 25 Platoon, "D" Company, 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
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Denis passed away May 20th after a long illness. Ive chatted to Denis many times in the past and he was always willing to help with info. He was the author of a great book called " The devils own luck" the link below is a link with an account of Denis Edwards' experiences from his book RIP Denis

http://www.pegasusarchive.org/normandy/denis_edwards.htm


 For anyone interested in the taking of the two bridges over the Orne river and Caen canal by the Ox and Bucks, June 6th 1944 Normandy.On the night of 5/6 June 1944, D Company, the Second Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (2nd Ox & Bucks), together with a Platoon of B Company, Royal Engineers and men of the Glider Pilot Regiment (totalling 181 men), were carried in 6 Horsa gliders to capture the vital bridges. This action was intended to secure the eastern flank to prevent German armour from reaching the area behind Sword Beach and interfering with the beach landings there.Five of the Ox and Bucks's gliders landed 40 yards from their objectives at 16 minutes past midnight and poured out of their battered gliders, completely surprising the German defenders, and taking the bridges within 10 minutes. They lost two men, Lieutenant Den Brotheridge and Lance-Corporal Greenhalgh, in the process. The Ox & Bucks were reinforced later in the night by landings of 7th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment. The Ox and Bucks and 7 Para held the bridges until the afernoon of D-day when Lord Lovat and his Commandos arrived and pushed on through.



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Malcolm Donnison ex 3 rgj

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I didn't know Dennis but he was one of the true hereos that made europe safe for us all. R.I.P Dennis up the ox and bucks.
Don

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Brian "Ballistics" Balicki

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"We will remember them, we will remember."

Sleep easy Denis, though I only know of you through your written account of your war time service,  I feel it an honour to have served in the same family of Regiments as such a man as yourself.  I thank you and your generation for the sacrifices made, many of which are now blurred by time, and wish you Gods speed and may you now rest in eternal peace.

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beggers

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I didn't know Dennis but his passing is sad news sleep well untill revalie sounds for us all.

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