WW2 100 - 8 August 1944 - ‘God’s Greatest Gift – Remembrance’: Signaller Ronald Yeats, 1st Battalion The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), (1916-44)
CONTINUED FROM 16 JULY 1944 MAJOR GEORGE TRISTRAM PALMER (1915-44) Devonshire Regiment, 12 th Airborne Battalion https://budleighpastandpresent.blogspot.com/2021/03/ww2-75-16-july-1944-leader-full-of-dash.html Troops with a stretcher clambering over the heaped rubble of destroyed buildings in a badly-damaged street of the beautiful city of Caen on 9 July 1944 Image credit: Imperial War Museums Banneville-la-Campagne, a few miles to the east of the city of Caen, with less than 200 residents, is a peaceful and unremarkable small village in the district of Calvados. It seems hard to believe now in the scenes of battle and devastation that marked this area of Normandy following the Allied invasion of France on 6 June 1944. Banneville-la-Campagne War Cemetery Image credit: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Yet the 2,170 Commonwealth graves in Banneville’s War Cemetery, the main feature o f the village, ...