Standing with the giants of D-Day generation
Daily Express|April 19, 2024
AT the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.
Mark Reynolds
Standing with the giants of D-Day generation

MEMORIAL TO THE FALLEN

The iconic lines of Laurence Binyon's war poem For The Fallen could almost have been written for these striking scenes of the Standing with Giants memorial to the fallen of D-Day.

One thousand, four hundred and seventy-five 6ft silhouettes of military figures have been erected in fields at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, France - one for every serviceman under British command who was killed on June 6, 1944.

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