James Holland

And it's by now, I mean, this attack starts at 3.30.

It's now about...

5 o'clock, something like that, a little bit after 5 o'clock.

A squadron will now come through and finish it off.

And they're going to do the next stage.

But they've got to get there.

So they're coming down from their position on Hill 0.102 and behind the Bordeaux line.

They're coming down into the village.

And this is the point where John Semkin bumps into the Tiger tank that was described by Stanley Christopherson right at the beginning.

And it's about 5.30 p.m.,

on the afternoon of Monday, the 26th of June, 1944.

So David Render is with his troop, Fife's troop.

He's in a little field between St.

Nicholas Farm and the edge of Fontenay.

And he looks across and he just sees this beret going down the hill, going down the road on the other side of the hedge.

So we're in a field, there's a hedge, he's in the field.

He sees a hat moving along.

He just sees a hat moving along.

And he just thinks, hang on a minute, that beret is not a British beret.

And he suddenly thinks, oh my God, that's a tiger.