Exercise Bumper 1941 England

[Rick W]

Hello, a quick intro to myself, some of you may recognise me from another forum. Currently restoring a 1944 Morris C8 which is coming along albeit slowly! Also have a 1942 Willys and currently a landrover FFR.
I have been looking at this site for a good while and there is some great input, I hope to contribute to that.
I have recently been made aware of an op carried out in 1941 called Operation Bumper carried out in England in 1941 and am looking for any info or pics. Primary reason is that it was carried out in my locality, North Buckinghamshire, South Northants and Bedfordshire. It was a big op to see where the army was going wrong after the disaster of Dunkirk, from what I know the op itself highlighted the problems. It was a large undertaking with over 250,000 troops involved, some of them I believe were Canadian. Can anyone shed any light on this?

[John McGillivray]

CMHQ Report No. 49 deals with Ex. Bumper.

http://web.archive.org/web/200602150...hq/cmhq049.pdf

[Rick W]

Many thanks for that, a very interesting document.

[Wyvern rider]

Hi,

I have 2 photographs from Ex. Bumper, one depicts a british tank marked up with german crosses a being captured in a street and the other is of British troops gathered around a towns water pump, the troops are belived to be Wiltshire regiment.Both pictures look to of been taken in the same town.


Regards

Mike

[Rick W]

Hi Mike, Is there any chance you could post the pics up or PM them to me, any ideas where the location of the photos are? Where did you source the photos from?

[Wyvern rider]

Hi Rik,

If you pm me your e-mail address I will mail you a copy of each pic, they were taken in Winslow, I have never had much luck posting pics onto a forum so once you have them if you want to post them up you are welcome to, they came from an album of a member of the Wiltshire regiment, a regiment that took part in ex.bumper, I can only guess the original owner of the pics is in the photos.


Regards

Mike

[Wyvern rider]

Hi Rik,

If you pm me your e-mail address I will mail you a copy of each pic, they were taken in Winslow, I have never had much luck posting pics onto a forum so once you have them if you want to post them up you are welcome to, they came from an album of a member of the Wiltshire regiment, a regiment that took part in ex.bumper, I can only guess the original owner of the pics is in the photos.


Regards

Mike

[Wyvern rider]

Hi Rik,

If you pm me your e-mail address I will mail you a copy of each pic, they were taken in Winslow, I have never had much luck posting pics onto a forum so once you have them if you want to post them up you are welcome to, they came from an album of a member of the Wiltshire regiment, a regiment that took part in ex.bumper, I can only guess the original owner of the pics is in the photos.


Regards

Mike

[Wyvern rider]

Hi Rik,

If you pm me your e-mail address I will mail you a copy of each pic, they were taken in Winslow, I have never had much luck posting pics onto a forum so once you have them if you want to post them up you are welcome to, they came from an album of a member of the Wiltshire regiment, a regiment that took part in ex.bumper, I can only guess the original owner of the pics is in the photos.


Regards

Mike

[Rick W]

Many thanks for that, PM sent.