A memorial to almost 22,500 servicemen and women under British command killed during D-Day and subsequent battles is to be unveiled on Sunday in northern France, a tribute seen as a long overdue commemoration of their sacrifice. The British heir to the throne Prince Charles, in a video message shared by the Normandy Memorial Trust, described the memorial as "long overdue".
77 years after D-Day, Allied landing beaches and memorials in France have stayed largely empty as COVID-19 caution kept away foreign visitors and surviving wartime veterans.
A memorial to almost 22,500 servicemen and women under British command killed during D-Day and subsequent battles is to be unveiled on Sunday in northern France, a tribute seen as a long overdue commemoration of their sacrifice. The British Normandy Memorial, inscribed with the names of 22,442 men and women who lost their lives during the invasion of Nazi-occupied France in the summer of 1944, will open on a hillside in the Normandy village of.
British servicemen and women killed in D-Day landings have been honoured with war memorial in Normandy
As the sun rises over the French village of Ver-Sur-Mer, British piper Steve Black plays to commemorate them
The names of the 22,442 men and women serving under British command who lost their lives are now inscribed on the pillars of the British Normandy Memorial