As reported in the local Hampshire press today, armed with bacon and eggs, one branch of the Women’s Institute leapt into action to feed the troops as they invaded a quiet Hampshire village. The Titchfield branch launched a successful mission and fed all 200 soldiers taking part in a 65-mile run from Dorset to Northern France to commemorate D-Day. Stopping for a well-earned rest at Titchfield Community Centre at 5am yesterday, the runners enjoyed a cooked breakfast while getting some much-needed treatment for their feet.
The charity dash follows the same route that British troops embarked upon in June 1944, from Tarrant Rushton to seize the Pegasus bridge in Normandy a day later, the first combat operation of the D-Day landings.
Every runner was wearing a T-shirt bearing the name of one of the 186 infantry soldiers involved in the operation.
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