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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My father Denis Carlton

His family (sons, grandchildren and great grandchildren
24/05/2024

My dad was a regular soldier having signed up at 16. He survived the hell of Dunkirk when so many sadly didn’t, witnessing a Stuka putting a bomb down the funnel of ship clearly marked with the Red Cross, men going mad , braking down and so many other horrors which no film could ever portray. He was mentioned in dispatches twice. He made it back to England safely and after a period of recuperation being very ill , became part of the D Day assault.

My father Denis Carlton
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