Merville Battery
Sergeant Sidney CAPON died on September 9, 2006 in his 82nd year.
This is what Pascaline Dagorn, Director of the Muse de la Batterie de Merville, stated when she heard of the death of 
Sidney Capon:
"I just lost a very dear friend. My son Gatan (8 years old) has also lost an Ami d'exception. They saw each other every 
year, wrote and even made presents, so great was the complicity that united them. For Gatan, Sid will remain the 
greatest of his heroes. Sid will also miss the circle of his friends in Normandy. "
Pascaline Dagorn continued by evoking memories:
"That's what Sid said to us:" You see me now an old man with a bone-sized and stout head, but I was a young sportsman 
when I was called to serve my country. He was only 18 years old. "
"Sidney or Sid as all his friends called him, participated in the attack of the Battery of Merville.
His mission was to neutralize casemate No. 1. No longer with 32 men as expected but only 7: Lieutenant Alan Jefferson, 
Sgt Bedford, Delsignore, Harold Walker, Leslie Cartwright, Tom Stroud and himself. "
"The order" ENTER, ENTER! (GET IN, GET IN!) Was launched by Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Otway who was with us.
Immediately Lieutenant Jefferson collapsed, wounded.
We continued to zigzag on the ground upset, towards casemate No. 1. We felt we were running in the midst of the enemy 
fire.
I was arriving on the other side of the casemate, and there were Eric Bedford, Frank Delsignore, Harold Walker, and the 
four men who had arrived there.
We threw two grenades inside and the Germans came out of the room to the left of the corridor to evacuate to the outside 
of the casemate through the door.
During the attack I heard explosions and cries to casemate No. 2: "MINES, MINES! ". I did not see Lieutenant Mike 
Dowling, he was killed ... "
Here is a brief summary of his biography that he wrote and confided to Pascaline Dagorn:
After the battery of Merville had been neutralized at the dawn of June 6th, he left with the survivors of the 9th 
Battalion in the direction of Amfrville.
On June 7, he participated in the bloody fighting at the Chteau-St-Cme.
On July 24 he was wounded in Bois-de-Bavent and had to spend eight weeks in the hospital in England.
Always voluntary, he returned to rejoin his battalion in the Ardennes.
In 1945, after crossing the Rhine and meeting the Russians on the Baltic, he was sent to India to learn the fight in the 
jungle. But the atomic bomb put an end to this training.
At the same time the 9th Battalion had been sent to Palestine. Of course, after his stay in the Indies, he will join them 
without delay.
On his arrival he was proposed to become an officer, but he refused the offer.
In 1946 Sidney CAPON returned to civil life.

6th "Pegase" Airborne Division: -->  [- : German

Scenario Length:  Game Turns - LOS (6 hexes)
Victory objective: The side with the required Victory Points is the winner. Both sides gets VPs for owning VP Objectives.
Scenario designer: Battle Academy'Men [ AMARIS - DDaySF ]
