Wednesday 10 September 2008

VE Day, 8 May 1945 - Arromanches



I understand from Claude Page's son that this is a VE Day celebration at Arromanches, which is about 2-3 miles from Bayeux, featured in the previous post.
This is an intriguing picture as the band of 14AOD is augmented by another seven bodies. Of those holding instruments, we see a violin, another accordion and two more trumpets or cornets. Three others are not holding instruments. It looks as if Ted Willmott is making do with just a snare drum; maybe it was tricky to get a whole drum kit down to the beach.

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