MASSACRE AT THE CHATEAU DE GRANGUES - D-DAY 6TH JUNE 1944

[Gil Boyd]

Brit Plumber,
Yes correct, a lot of my original work was cut down and a few mistakes made including that one typo error, which to us that know is important.

This is what was actually said at the court of enquiry in 1945 regarding this point:

The weapon used is stated by the pathologist to have have been of approximately .38 calibre, which would suggest either a sub machine gun or an automatic pistol of Luger or Walther type.

The pathologist was an RAMC Capt Rankin. Whether he would or could have told that accurately in field PM conditions is debatable. I would certainly have said it was a pistol from what the witness described and most certainly a 9mm round in each case, as his personal pistol was a P38. As I said in my article, with DNA and forensics today it is a shame the rounds were not kept!