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)

Write your dedication

Albert Edwin Lancaster

Grandaughter
06/06/2024

My grandad was a marine in the war his friends called him eddy or edwin and he was involved in d day I never got the chance to talk to him about war it was something he kept to himself sadly he as past on now but I had the pleasure of growing up with the most amazing gentlemen I've ever knew he was my grandad, my hero and has a family we was and still are very proud of him I find it so brave of him he was a kid going in but came out a man and I will miss him every day of my life

Albert Edwin Lancaster