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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Stanley Victor Jones

Alan Cannon Jones (son)
02/06/2024

My father Stanley Victor Jones originally enlisted with the Sputh Lancashire Voulenters Regiment in 1937 and became batman to an officer. He went to France as part of the BEF and as a result ended up at Dunkirk. Back in England he trained as a medic and transfered to the Royal Emgineers. He crossed the chanel on D Day 6 as a medic with the Royal Engineers to commence the building of the Mulbury Harbour. Later they moved to Antwerp to reopen the docks as the second supply route.

Stanley Victor Jones
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