D-DAY MEMORIAL RACE FROM MALVILLE FRANCE

[Guest REDFOXKRAUTHS]

CAN ANY ONE GIVE ME MORE INFO ON IT IT WAS IN A FEB ADDITION OF THE BHW ON PAGE 53 I DO NOT HAVE THESE, ALL I NO IS THAT IT IS A MEMORIAL RACEW FROM MALVILLE WERE THE D-DAY PEOPLE LANDED, THEY ARE TAKING 4000+ BIRDS OVER ON THE OLD CATTLE LORRIES AND BASKETS IT IS BEING HELD  BY THE NATION FLYING CLUB, ANY EXTRA INFO BE GREAT OGHH  ITS MARKING IS 4TH OF JUNE RACE 6TH JUNE, AND THEY ARE BEING RELEASED BY THE MAYOUR OF MALVILLE

[Guest chrisss]

i think you will find its called merville mate [big german battery the 9th bn /6th airborne landed there night before d day]

[Roland]

Didn't realise it was anything to do with the NFC.... must have heard it wrong at the club meeting last Wednesday..... when it was being pushed.

[Guest REDFOXKRAUTHS]

oh i heard it was but dont quote me i was speaking to Bob Reeves!! Erm ok sorry my french spelligns arent good haha

[Guest]

oh i heard it was but dont quote me i was speaking to Bob Reeves!! Erm ok sorry my french spelligns arent good haha

 

better than your english. ;D ;D ;D

[Guest LBuddle]

This is taken from an article written by R Bradford on www.iprr.co.uk.

 

June 6th, 2009 – Merville

 

It would appear that there is substantial local interest in this anniversary race from Merville, and I certainly know of some six clubs within our region, who are considering holding a race within a race (as it were). Brian Newsome has written about the history of the military and how the Parachute Regiment took out the gun emplacements just behind the landing beaches in June 1944, so I will not repeat, other than to say that anyone who gets the opportunity to visit the site, where there is a small museum in one of the gun emplacements, will find the experience very worthwhile but quite emotional. In a previous article I stated that I considered it will make a fine yearling race, and apparently some have questioned if it is just a yearlings race. It is not, and is open to any age pigeons. Mike Armitage at The Lion Brewery is the main organiser and has sent me some further details, with more to follow in due course as details are firmed up. Race marking on Thursday 4th, June for this race will be at :- Ash – The Lion Brewery 3.30 pm – 5.30 pm; Bromley – The Great Elms Club Phone Tom Furminger on 0208 2901 181 for times etc; Whitstable – Phone John Lane 01227 263247; Exeter with Bob Reeves in charge at The Institute in Whipton 01392 679933; John Tyerman is running a station at Chichester at The Bell Inn Tel 01243 514338, and for those North of Watford Gap you can bring pigeons to either Budgie Crathorne at Manchester 0161 6431125, or for this area there will be a Northampton marking station at Ringstead from 10.30 to 1.00 pm. The actual entry fee if you wish to take your pigeons to Ash is £2.00 per bird, but like many other marking stations, in order to cover the cost of getting the birds to The Lion Brewery the entry at Northampton will be £2.50 per bird Section pools will be at £1; £2; £5 & £10 plus a SBN split 50%-30%-20%; a Charity Nom at £1 and paid 50/50, plus a Champ UNIKON system that has been kindly put up for winning by Ray Knight. I am sure this particular pool will attract loads of one pound nominations given the ever increasing wish for fanciers to race with ETS, and once ETS has been installed one must wonder what all the fuss has been about, and why we didn’t race with ETS many years previously. A novel way of approaching the sections is that members entering via one of the above marking stations will be in that section. This idea hasn’t been 100% agreed as yet, but will offer a new way of creating sections without the need to be within a precise latitude and longitude, or fly a specific distance. Merville has been allocated a special code by the RPRA, as it can not normally be used, other than on very special occasions and the code to obtain distances is 9999.