D-Day: To Bremen and beyond Tracy Craggs
Event details
Poignant, modest, often humorous – discover the personal accounts of the men of the 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment with author Tracy Craggs. Find out how they trained for, and landed on, Sword Beach in June 1944, then fought on across France, Holland and Germany.
This is not about high-level strategy, but about cold, mud and fear, about ordinary men, miles from home working together to serve their country. From the biggest seaborne invasion in history to small deadly battles that marked bodies and minds – all told in their own words.
The talk will last approximately 45 minutes and will be followed by questions and a chance to look around the museum.
Accessibility: The museum is down a flight of 11 steps. There is a platform stairlift which will take weights of up to 325Kg. Contact the museum on 01904 461010 for further information.
Find out more about the York Army Museum.
Image credit: York Army Museum
About the speaker
Dr Tracy Craggs is Holocaust Centre North’s Head of Collections, but she has also interviewed members of the armed forces for 25 years, both for her doctoral thesis ‘An Unspectacular War? Reconstructing the History of the 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment during the Second World War’ and also on behalf of museums and archives across the UK. She is the author of D-Day - To Bremen and Beyond: Untold stories from the men of the 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, which resulted from a promise she made to the veterans of the 2nd Battalion to tell their story.
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