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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Frank Cooper

His daughter Dawn Ormston
28/05/2024

Remembering my father, Trooper Frank Cooper, who was 19 on the 6th June 1944. Part of the 4th Armoured Brigade, 3rd City of London Yeomanry. 2nd tank of his landing craft on Juno beach on 6th June 1944 , the first tank sunk as the landing craft was too far off shore. Wounded on 8th August 1944 when his tank was hit , brought back to England and spent a year in hospital before being discharged on 15th August 1945

Frank Cooper
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