Presentation to SODD Staff at Southwick House

15 Nov 2023 - Your humble Webmaster hugely enjoyed giving a presentation about the LCOCU (Landing Craft Obstacle Clearance Unit) divers on D-Day to MCDOA Chairman Martin Mackey (Superintendent of Defence Diving) and his team yesterday in Southwick House, Eisenhower’s HQ for the Normandy invasion. Sadly, I had to demolish the well-established but ill-founded myth that they were the first ashore.

Southwick House was latterly the wardroom mess of the now decommissioned HMS DRYAD, of which I was a life member before being dined out of the RN in 2002 and being presented with this framed print.