These images show the spectacular new memorial that will honour 22,442 fallen British servicemen and women who died in the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy. Photographs show the finished Normandy Memorial, overlooking Gold Beach, where British troops stormed ashore on June 6, 1944. Britain was the only allied country involved in the landings which did not have its own national memorial on French soil. Ex-Royal Engineer George Batts, the veteran patron of the Normandy Memorial Trust, said: 'Only those who were there on D-Day can truly know what it was like. Yet it has taken all this time for Britain’s Normandy heroes to be honoured with a proper, national memorial in the place where they fell.

Source: The Nation June 05, 2021 02:05 UTC