A superb French-found
World War Two British Army
Heavy China 'Char' Mug
Dated 1942
Located on a farm in Caen,
near Bayeux in Normandy,
the first town that the
British Army's 50th Northumbrians
took and occupied on June 7th in North Western France after
the June 6th Invasion of the Normandy coast-line.
Maker-marked in a pale grey-green on the base
G VI R
BRIDGWOOD
1942
it is in a fabulous used, issued condition.
and makes a terrific souvenir of the Allied heavy fighting
that took place across Normandy
after the
June 6th D-Day Landings of 1944