Dorset Hill

[trenoweth]

On which Dorset hill did Montgomery dump the renamed 3rd Division 70 years ago?
Any help appreciated. Trenoweth

[dotty.]

From Google:
In 1940, the coastline at Studland Bay was one of the two stretches of Dorset coast where a German invasion was considered most likely and it was fortified as a part of British anti-invasion preparations of World War II.[3]

The village and beach were used as a training area before the D-Day landing in the Second World War. On top of Redend Point, a small sandstone cliff which splits the beach in two at high tide, is Fort Henry. Built in 1943 by Canadian engineers, it is 90 feet (27 m) long, with 3-foot-thick (0.9 m) walls and an 80-foot-wide (24 m) recessed observation slit.

On April 18, 1944, King George VI, General Sir Bernard Montgomery and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, met here to observe the training troops and discuss the plans for the coming battle.
http://www.tommythomas.org.uk/henry/index.htm

[ironmonger]

I remember my elder brother telling me he was posted to
West Bay Dorset in 1940 He was in the 3rd Welsh Division.
They were called the V Corps.