Those who travel to the Normandy beaches to pay their respects around the anniversary of D-Day have been able since 2021 to visit a new memorial, the British Normandy Memorial – close to the ...
Somewhere around 9,000 soldiers are buried in this Colleville-sur-Mer war cemetery, which overlooks Omaha Beach ... who visit Normandy are partial to this cemetery and memorial in particular.
The names of 13 veterans from 12 allied countries are being added to the Normandy Memorial Wall to ... the sea and taken to a field hospital on Gold Beach. The injuries he sustained have meant ...
The British Normandy Memorial now constructed sits in Ver-sur-Mer, above Gold Beach, where he landed. “Dad also revisited Eindhoven, which he liberated as part of the Market Garden campaign.
Joe Cattini was just 21 when he drove a truck loaded with petrol and ammunition off a ship in one of the first waves of the Normandy landings ... Mr Cattini landed on Gold Beach on D-Day as ...