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
General John Burgoyne
Army officer, politician and playwright. Born at Park Prospect, Westminster. He entered the army in 1740 and in the Seven Years War he captured Valencia de Alcantara. During the Saratoga Campaign i...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Theatre, Canada, Ireland, Spain, USA
13th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Kensington)
London unit which served in WW1. Their Wikipedia page show how the Battalion came into being on 1 April 1908 and how it was subsequently transformed. It is shown as the 13th Battalion (Kensingtons...
Air Marshal Lord Hugh Montague Trenchard
Founder of the Royal Air Force. Born Somerset. Aged 20 joined the Second Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers and served in India, in the Boer War and in Nigeria. Learnt to fly in 1912 and ser...
R. G. Beckley
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Bdsm. John Heritage
Killed by the IRA Regent's Park bomb - not killed outright but was mortally wounded, dying 12 days later, aged 29 years.