Dear Ian, sorry to disappoint you but I haven’t been to Beaumont le Roger (yet).
My father never showed any inclination to return to the location of the events, I think the loss of his friends in the other planes was just too much to address. One year after the raid, when he was a POW he also had to deal with the death of his only brother who was flying with the Fleet Air Arm. At the end of the war he just wanted to get home and pick up the threads. He kept in touch with his crew, with whom he still maintained a paternalistic relationship ( he was approx 10 years their senior) until his latter years.
He is buried in a little country churchyard in Trellech, Monmouthshire.

Bert Dowty was the front gunner in my fathers plane, and I understand he died last June. I imagine that the commemoration of the raid will eventually lapse .
My husband and I are taking an extended trip through France next month and Beaumont le Roger is on our itinerary.
Best wishes
Glynis Taylor (nee Crum)