75th Commemoration of D-Day landings

Leslie Milford Smith. Landed in Normandy on D-Day at Sword Beach, Ouistreham, after sailing from Gosport,Hampshire.
Some of dad's annotated thoughts written in the margins of Norman Scarfe's book "Assault Division" being "A history of the 3rd Division" to which dad was attached.
Quote: "I was on LCT (Landing Craft) 306. I spent most of the D-Day crossing persuading Signalman Price (a Liverpudlian with a ten month old baby) from drowning himself "because we'll all be killed when we land, anyway" was his reasoning.He was in fact, killed by a sniper on D-Day 2 so his premonition came true for him."
Another of his vivid memories was, quote, " When I saw this extraordinary man on D-Day, he was jumping up and down, both arms aloft, just like a modern goal scorer! "
The man in question was the Mayor of Colleville, of whom Scarfe wrote " He arrived on the beach to welcome the invaders. He judged it a suitable occasion to wear a gleaming fireman's helmet, not unlike an inverted brass coal scuttle. In such circumstances (as in a nightmare) nothing seemed incongruous"
Dad went on to the Battle for Caen, Being deemed by Scarfe to be " one of the world's great battles and everyone knows it. (dad writing in the margin of the book, "me for one") It was won to a very large extent on the will-power and steadfastness of the characters in this narrative. The 3rd Division were holding this line in front of Caen.......until Caen fell on the 9th July."