Road Junction 080809

41 Commando met at Road Junction 080809 when they came off Sword Beach. Does anyone know exactly where this is on a modern day map? We are going to the area next month and it would be great to be able to pinpoint it. It's on a St Aubyn map apparently.
Derrick Parsons

Derrick,
Latitude : 49° 17' 53'' N Longitude : 0° 18' 12' W

Thank you so much for this. Pinpoints it very nicely.
And now I'm going to be a bit cheeky and ask for more. I have a copy of the 41 Commando unit diary for the days around the landing and here are a number of other references that I'd like to track down. Any chance you could do these as well for me?
Derrick

Derrick,
Post the grid references and I will take a look.
Guy

I use this handy website to convert British WW2 grid references:
http://www.echodelta.net/mbs/eng-translator.php

However, you do need to know the 'grid' covering the relevant geographical area which can be found here:
http://www.echodelta.net/mbs/eng-grids.php

In the case of your enquiry, you'll see it is 'French Lambert Zone 1', the grid is 'vU'

So using the website's "Coordinates Translator" (the first link in this post) you just:

1/ Select the grid or the geographical area concerned - using the dropdown box select 'French Lambert Zone 1'

2/ Enter the "Modified British System" coordinates to be decoded in the box 'vU080809'

3/ Press the 'Convert! button'

It will pin point it on a map for you and give you the Latitude and Longitude which you can put in Google Maps etc