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Old July 12th, 2004, 01:01 AM
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Niall,

Typical, went through my stuff last night, forgot to bring my books to work.

Captain Vaughan was present at Pegasus Bridge, as an attached RAMC officer from 224th Parachute Field Ambulance (3rd Parachute Brigade). Ambrose's "Pegasus Bridge" also elaborates extensively on his exploits of 6th June.

I found a quote by Private R Daeche in Carl Shiletto's book on PB. It appears that he was a member of 195th Airlanding Field Ambulance and flew in with 6th Airlanding Brigade (which were to reinforce the Orne Bridges). He refers to "landing zones" and "crossing the Orne bridges".

He is not named in Dennis Edwards' Pegasus Bridge list (which appears to be complete and comprehensive).

Dennis states that the RAMC contingent comprised one officer (Vaughan) and 3 ors (privates). Daeche's name is not among them.

Hope this helps.

Peter
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