James Holland
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Appearances Over Time
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which is the first major British coordinated offensive that takes place.
Gigantic.
Gigantic set piece.
Yeah, which is launched on Monday the 26th of June.
A martlet is a precursor which begins the day before.
Well, they've had this, the Sherwood Rangers have had this very, very steep learning curve, as have the 49th Polar Bear Division.
Ah.
So they landed with the 50th Tyne Tees.
The 50th Tyne Tees then got kind of switched somewhere else.
And in their place came the 49th Polar Bear Division.
And they're so-called the Polar Bear because they'd been stationed on Iceland.
They hadn't really seen any action.
You don't see an awful lot.
When you're a garrison.
When you're a garrison on Iceland.
Yeah.
So that was a problem.
And the problem was, again, this whole outranking system.
That you had the completely greenhorn infantry division outranking the incredibly well-experienced...
Sherwood Rangers and 4th 7th Regiment Guards.