File:Inkpen - The Merville Battery - geograph.org.uk - 1912.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Inkpen_-_The_Merville_Battery_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1912.jpg(640 × 480 pixels, file size: 49 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Description
English: Inkpen - The Merville Battery. The 9th Battalion The Parachute Regiment rehearsed for the D-Day assault on the German Coastal Artillery Battery at Merville, France. A full sized replica was fabricated in the valley below and repeatedly attacked, in the final practice live ammunition was used and the mock up destroyed. The Parachute Regt received battle honours for the action and the battery at Merville is today a museum to their heroic action.
Date
Source From geograph.org.uk
Author Subarite
Object location51° 21′ 24″ N, 1° 28′ 07″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing

[edit]
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
Attribution: Subarite
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current02:00, 30 January 2010Thumbnail for version as of 02:00, 30 January 2010640 × 480 (49 KB)GeographBot (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=Inkpen - The Merville Battery. The 9th Battalion The Parachute Regiment rehearsed for the D-Day assault on the German Coastal Artillery Battery at Merville, France. A full sized replica was fabricat

The following page uses this file:

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata