{"id":6068,"date":"2024-10-04T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2024-10-04T19:05:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T18:05:55","slug":"past-and-present-dday80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/2024\/10\/04\/past-and-present-dday80\/","title":{"rendered":"Past and present &#8211; DDay80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very topical and moving personal account from the widow of Bill Edwardes, Jean, who is a member of SI Winchester. Bill served in the 43<sup>rd<\/sup> Wessex Division in the war and also formed the 43<sup>rd<\/sup> Division Association. Jean gave us a very moving presentation of her involvement in Bill\u2019s post war commemorations and in 2004 also featured in a presentation with the Earl of Wessex\/Duke of Edinburgh regarding the unit\u2019s most hard won battle at Hill 112, <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/2023\/08\/03\/rededication-of-the-43rd-division-association-memorial-arboretum\/\">see previous post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 43<sup>rd<\/sup> Wessex Division formed from the Territorial Army battalions of the southwest, including the 4<sup>th<\/sup> and 5<sup>th<\/sup> Battalions of the Wiltshire Regiment. The DCLI, Devon and Dorset\u2019s Gloucester\u2019s and Worcester\u2019s became known as the fighting Wessex Wyverns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/Jean2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6069 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/Jean2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/Jean2.jpeg 878w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/Jean2-257x300.jpeg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a>Jean told us that it wasn\u2019t until the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of DDay that Bill started to talk about\u00a0 his time in the war . He joined the Normandy Veterans Association and 1<sup>st<\/sup> Worcester\u2019s Regimental Association and revisited Normandy. From then on he became involved in all sorts of events in remembrance of the Division and their involvement. After landing on DDay he had to wait for the rest of the Divisional to arrive eventually the unit fought their way through to the south of Caen, where they held the ground against the Germans, allowing the American forces to push around and through, sustaining severe loss of life in the process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/Memorial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6077 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/Memorial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/Memorial.jpg 720w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/Memorial-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a>Jean attended the ceremony in Normandy where the weather was very inclement, but she played her part, and told us that the new British Memorial, which has at last been completed after 78 years, is outstanding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/DofE-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6071 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/winchester-and-district\/files\/2024\/10\/DofE-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Jean\u2019s presence in Normandy this year was marked by another meeting with the Duke of Edinburgh who remarked on her mobility to lay the wreath. Jean has mobility difficulties but was helped by her friends and led Prince Edward to remark that she reminded him of a Dalek in her walking frame and was relieved to see she had help laying the wreath.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very topical and moving personal account from the widow of Bill Edwardes, Jean, who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":6075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Past and present - DDay80 | News | Blog | Events | SI Winchester and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Winchester and District : Blog &amp; News : Past and present - DDay80 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Winchester and District . 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