James Holland

Right.

And one of his last trips to Normandy was in his E-Type.

No idea at all.

It's extraordinary, isn't it?

Yes, because he's got a load of replacement Cromwell tanks.

Right.

And he's in charge.

Right.

So, right, you're in charge of taking those over to Normandy.

And that's it, they drown.

They're gone.

The trooper that's driving it drowns.

He spends a night in a field, and the next morning he doesn't know what to do, and he's sort of waiting around, just going, well, what am I supposed to do?

And no one seems to know, and every time he asks someone, they just sort of go, I don't know.

And eventually someone goes, yeah, you're going to go and join the...

The Sherwood Rangers.

So he gets there that evening.

He arrives on 0.103 on the evening of Sunday the 11th of May, the same day, June rather, the same day that Mike Laycock has been killed, the squadron commander.

Yeah.

And John Semkin, who only two days earlier had assumed command of a seconding commander replacement of Keith Douglas, is now acting commander of a squadron because Stanley is acting regimental commander.