D-Day 80 Memorial

This is a special place for you to share memories and photos of your loved ones who were involved in D-Day - and the wider war effort.

“…the spirit of the people, resolute, dedicated, burned like a bright flame, lit surely from those unseen fires which nothing can quench.”  King George VI, 6 June 1944 (D-Day)

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Corporal Harold Douglas Berriff (royal engineers)

David Berriff (son)
20/05/2024

Dad was one of the 156,000 who landed on the Normandy Beaches. He landed on Sword Beach. It was 10 weeks before mum received a letter confirming dad was at the 79 Field Hospital in Bayeux (france) and being repatriated to the UK.

Corporal Harold Douglas Berriff (royal engineers)
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