Route March, 1 May 1944: C Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion
Note:
The War Office base map used in this document is Sheet 55 (Grantham) of the England and Wales One-Inch Popular Series, GSGS 3907 - 1933-43, and is reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland. It can be accessed online here: Map Sheet 55 Grantham of the wartime military Ordnance Survey series
Map showing circular route of the march undertaken by C Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion, on 1 May 1944; it was approximately 17 miles (27 km). The march started and finished at the Company Headquarters at Hungerton Hall.
On 1 May 1944, the men of C Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion, carried out a clockwise, circular route march from Hungerton Hall, south-east of Grantham.
This route was approximately 17 miles (27km).
A paratrooper makes a heavy landing during an exercise. (Critical Past film 65675058877)