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
W. C. Stone
Employed at the Holloway tram garage. Served and was killed in WW1.
Admiral, Sir John Colpoys, GCB
Naval officer. While attempting to control the 1797 Spithead mutiny, Colpoys ordered the shooting of his own crew thus causing the death of several men (we can't find an exact number). Not surpri...
Sir Alexander Russell Downer, KBE
High Commissioner for Australia 1964-72. Known as Alick and not to be confused with his son, Alexander John Gosse Downer (b.1951) who was also High Commissioner from 2014 to 2018. Our Picture Sou...
Person, Armed Forces, Law, Politics & Administration, Australia
Lieutenant Harry Leopold Pollak
Harry Leopold Pollak was born on 18 July 1885 in Marylebone, Middlesex (now Greater London), the second of the eight children of Joseph Pollak (1847-1927) and Emma Jane Pollak née Goldmann (1863-19...
Person, Armed Forces, Gardens / Agriculture, Argentina, France