James Holland
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Obviously, there's machine gunners in there.
They have to clear those out.
But also this attack that they've got to do, the first thing they've got to do is they've got to take St.
Nicholas Farm.
So it's going to be, as you say, it's going to be this leapfrogging scenario.
Yeah.
With Sea Squadron, with the 7th Duke of Wellington's Regiment, who've already cut and run in an earlier engagement.
They do.
They sort of get themselves together by this, this day.
So that's happened kind of, you know, like a week earlier or whatever.
And they have to get into this farm.
That farm is still there.
Yeah.
And the way Sea Squadron do it is they, you've got the road going straight up to...
Roray, the village of Roray, about a mile and a half away.
And then on the left-hand side, as you're looking towards the Roray Ridge, as you're looking south, so on the eastern side is the farm.
And what Soleri decides is that he's going to get him around the back of the farm and come through the orchard at the back of the farm and then come in that way.
And they do.
And Stuart Hill's tank bursts through the hedgerows surrounding the orchard and farm.
And Arthur Reddish, who's the co-driver at the front with the machine gun,