The allied campaign in WW2 for the liberation of North West Europe including the Normandy D-Day landings.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Operation Overlord
Commemorated ati
D-Day Tree
These 4 plaques, each about 7" (we didn't actually measure them) are laid int...
Dwight D Eisenhower
The United States of America recognizes the selfless service and manifold con...
Operation Torch & Operation Overlord
Norfolk House In this building, 24 June 1942 - 8 November 1942, general of t...
Other Subjects
C. E. Smale
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
John Stanhope Collings-Wells, VC
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 22-27 March 1918, aged 37, while serving in the Bedfordshire Regiment. "After six days’ continuous fighting, he led the attack, and even when severely wounded he c...
Captain Paul Milton Ellington
Paul Milton Ellington was born on 31 May 1920 in Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA, the younger child of Percy Fuller Ellington (1886-1926) and Carolyn Marie Ellington née McIrvin (1887-1968). His...
Alfred Adrian Jones, MVO, FRBS
Born Ludlow. Served in the army in the First Boer War as a veterinary captain. As a sculptor he specialised in animal figures. See Speel for more of his work. Our Picture Source and his Wikipedia p...
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Euston War Memorial
NW1, Euston Road
This memorial forms the roundabout in the bus station in front of Euston Station.
King George VI Memorial Garden
N22, Wood Green High Road
Borough of Wood Green. King George VI Memorial Garden. This garden was provided by public subscription as a memorial to his late Majesty,...
Sir Stewart Duke-Elder
Ophthalmologist. Born in Pitlochry, Scotland. Wrote a classic manual for eye surgeons, entitled "Textbook of Ophthalmology".
Gladys Mills
Pianist. Born Gladys Jordan at 154 Beckton Road, Silvertown, Newham, Essex. She was the supervisor of the typing pool at the Treasury and played piano at various venues in the evenings. She was 'sp...
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