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Memorial for the Normandy fallen. Open yr round & free. Standing with Giants & Winston Churchill Centre open to Sept 2025. [email protected]
The Formidable Five. Normandy Veterans Ken Hay, Richard Aldred, Henry Rice, Jim Grant, John Dennett at Colleville-sur-Mer. Today we host the Veterans for the 81st anniversary of D-Day. #DDay81 📷 PA / Gareth Fuller
Rest in Peace, Donald. ❤️
Thank you for everything, Donald ❤️ 🫡 Donald Rose, the UK's oldest surviving World War Two veteran, has sadly died at the age of 110, Erewash Borough Council has confirmed. 📷 PA
Our Cathedral Choir has arrived in France! 🇫🇷 You can read more about their trip and where to hear them this week on our website: cathedral.org.uk/news/cathedral… 🇫🇷
"Lord, keep me safe, I’m just 18 & still a life to live Or, if ’tis end, please make it quick, I’ve nothing more to give." 'As I Look Back' by Normandy Veteran & Memorial Ambassador Ken Hay MBE. On #ArmedForcesDay, we share Ken's words in memory of all those who never came home.
"The dearest son the world could hold with tender smile and heart of gold." This is the story of Claude Lewis, who was a fire watcher the London Blitz before taking part in the Normandy as a Private in the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) @BritishArmy. #ArmedForcesDay
We salute The Greatest Generation. ❤️🇬🇧 #ArmedForcesDay2025 #ArmedForcesDay 📷 British Normandy Memorial / Florence Marsac
The Trust announces that 99-year-old D-Day Veteran Ken Cooke has been appointed Memorial Ambassador. “I’m very proud to have been asked to be an Ambassador. It means a great deal to me — to help remember the lads who didn’t make it home..." britishnormandymemorial.org/news-story/d-d… #ArmedForcesDay
Over 30 nationalities are represented on the Memorial, reflecting the international contribution in the Normandy Campaign. Sergeant Eric Osman of Pakistani & Indian heritage served with the @RoyalAirForce & was killed in an aircraft crash. #ArmedForcesWeek britishnormandymemorial.org/normandy-story…
This #ArmedForcesWeek, we honour the memory of those named on the British Normandy Memorial. Men like Private Fred Wright, who pre-war was a renowned dancer, known affectionately as the 'Tango King'. Personal insights and memories shared by his nephew: britishnormandymemorial.org/normandy-story…
We are deeply saddened to hear that our dear friend WWII veteran Peter Kent has died. He was a true character, always ready to entertain with a song, a dance and a swirl of his walking stick. He will be sorely missed and we send our heartfelt condolences to his family friends.
#DevoirDHistoire #JourneeMemorielleEtCitoyenne Magnifiques et émouvantes prestations des 800 écoliers et collégiens @SeullesTerreMer @ac_normandie qui célèbrent en chants et en danse la fraternité au @britishmemorial 🇬🇧🇫🇷 🙏🏼 @SeullesTerreMer pour ce beau partenariat 👏🏼👏🏼à tous
Last week will stay with me forever. Honoured to meet a D Day Veteran, lay a wreath @britishmemorial and pay tribute @CWGC Bayeux War Cemetery. Spending time with Madame Arlette Gondrée was incredibly moving and powerful. Our delegation ended with important discussions @NATO
On #FathersDay we remember fathers who never came home, and the dads whose sons & daughters gave their lives in Normandy. Jack Skingley served with @RoyalAirForce & on 20 July boarded a Lancaster for the last time. He left behind his wife & 2 children. britishnormandymemorial.org/.../jack-sking…
🇫🇷 #DDay81 🇬🇧 A l'occasion du 81e anniversaire du Débarquement et de la libération de la Normandie, le Mémorial britannique de Ver-sur-Mer a accueilli la cérémonie des enfants. La participation de 12 établissements scolaires de la communauté de communes Seulles Terre et Mer,…
I was thrilled to be able to congratulate Paul on behalf of @britishmemorial on his extraordinary achievement of cycling 22,442 miles (one for each of the fallen whose names are recorded on the Memorial, including his grandfather). A great Ambassador and fundraiser for us!
It was my honour to complete 22,442 of cycling today at @britishmemorial for those that never came home.
It was my honour to complete 22,442 of cycling today at @britishmemorial for those that never came home.
#DDay81 at the British Normandy Memorial. 📹 The Spirit of Normandy Trust
A humbling day in Normandy meeting veterans in Bayeux and the fantastic @BritishMemorial at Ver-sur-Mer. It’s a rare thing to change the course of history, but that’s what the veterans of Normandy did. We will never forget them. #DDay
Lessons of the past for generations of the future. #DDay81 Credit: PA / Gareth Fuller
The 81st anniversary of D-Day in 1944 will be marked today with a series of remembrance events in Normandy as well as here at home. The landings in the Second World War were part of Operation Overlord, the Allied campaign to liberate Western Europe from the Nazis. @nickdixonitv…
Your 60 second (ish) cemetery chat from the British Normandy Memorial, Ver-Sur-Mer, Normandy, France, on 6 June, 81 years after DDay. @britishmemorial @CWGC