Trou013 Les Aubets Batterie 1./A.R.1711

A battery of four 7.62 Field Kannon that would have been used to cover the North side of Trouville but as they were mobile, they could be moved around at will.

Batterie 1./A.R.1711. 4 x 7.62 F.K. guns. 3 x 2cm Flak AA guns.

Trou13 was in fields about a kilometre to the east of Les Aubets. The battery would have been in field positions (not in concrete ringstands or casemates). They may have been horse drawn. They covered the beaches and town of Villerville. When the Merville batterie retreated from Normandy, they collected their horses from the fields and found they were too fat and unfit, due to not being used enough. So they exchanged their fat horses for farmers draught horses.

Le Manoir Chateau (Villerville)           Medium Troop

Artillery in training.

Air photo post war showing the four gun positions, the command post and trenches. A barbed wire fence surrounded the site. There may even have been mine fields also surrounding the batterie.

This picture is of a captured 7.62cm F.K. re used by the Americans. The Americans were very willing to use captured guns and vehicles, the British on the other hand, tended not to.