Ceremony takes place at Ver-sur-Mer for 22,442 soldiers under British command who died on D-day

They fought on the beaches of Normandy, they fought on the landing grounds in the fields and streets and hills. As Winston Churchill had promised, they did not surrender.

On Sunday the names of 22,442 soldiers under British command who died on D-day and the subsequent Battle of Normandy, were engraved in stone as a permanent reminder of their sacrifice as a new British Normandy memorial was unveiled.

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