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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Private Leonard Footitt

From his family
20/05/2024

Killed in action. July 8th 1944 serving in France with South Staffordshire Regiment aged 24. Buried at the Cambes en Plaine war cemetery in Normandy. The youngest in family with four sisters and two other brothers. From Kirkby in Ashfield Nottinghamshire 🇬🇧

Private Leonard Footitt
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