Determination of the soldiers sailors airmen and marines on land at sea and in the air on 60 june 1944 paved the way for the successful Normandy Campaign and the end of the 2nd world war 22442. 00 servicemen and women under british command lost their lives in normandy as did many thousands of french civilians it is only right and proper that their sacrifice and service is acknowledged and commemorated here as we gather to in your great the site of this British Normandy memorial we pray that it may be a unifying commemorative focus. Of this extraordinary campaign. Did a veteran george but stalls him down to a bunch of 18 to 20 year olds now taking they were magnificently trained and equipped unsupported but only a few of them and ive been in combat. Only a few ive ever killed also in a body killed they were citizen soldiers not professionals from d. Day by stephen 8 ambers. None of them wanted to be part of another war but when the test came when freedom had to be fought for abandon the
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who was killed on the approach to juneau beach 3 weeks before his brother private joseph carson was also killed in normandy and twins robert and charles guy $21.00 who both served in the r.a.f. and were shot down and barrett separately that names will now be reunited here. these young men belonged to a very special generation the greatest generation a generation whose unconquerable spirit shaped our post-war world they didn t post they didn t fuss they served they did that u.t. and they laid down their lives so that we might have a better life and build a better world the memorial that we built built here will remind us of this
156000 men landed on d.-day of which 83000 were from britain and the commonwealth. over a quarter 1000000 more supported operations from air and sea while the french resistance carried out extraordinary acts of bravery behind enemy lines many were terribly wounded and many made the ultimate sacrifice that day and in the fierce fighting that followed as together our allied nations sought to release europe from the grip of fascism men like left tenant then brother richard the oxfordshire and buckinghamshire light infantry 28 years old husband father to be. thought to be the 1st allied soldier killed in action after leading the charge over pegasus bridge marine robert cason of $46.00 royal marine commandos