Remembrance Sunday, 2022 – held at Kingston Lacy House. US 1st Inf Division and US 29th Inf Division ~ (reenactments). In WW2 – the US 1st Infantry Division were based in Dorset, and the US 29th were based in the West Country (arriving in Dorset some weeks before D-Day) – they embarked from Portland, Weymouth and Poole Harbours – together to storm Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Old and modern
Officer in charge at Kingston Lacy
Wire Team
Can see the famous ‘Big Red 1 patch’ of the US 1st Infantry Division (on the Officer in charge at Kingston Lacy)
And the Navy…
checking this later version out…
A little more modern!
Medical supplies – coca cola!
MP bikes…
busy chatting ..
blue sky..
line of jeeps…
shadows…
Looking around
Outside The House
assortment of vehicles
~ preparing for the Silence ~ many others will be standing for the Silence – inside The House
2 minute silence (1 minute for WW1, and 1 minute for WW2)
2 minute silence
