Gold Beach and the British Memorial Day 4

 

Normandy

It was D-Day morning,

the time was 6:15,

When a group of British Tommies

Stormed the shores of Normandy.

It was on that D-Day morning

When the invasion had begun,

That gallant British Tommy

Fell down to a Spando gun.

His comrades gathered around him,

Faces wet with tears they shed,

And they heard his dying message, 

and this is what he said.

Will my soul go back to England?

Will it reach old Blighty's shores?

Will it find the little village?

In the place where I was born?

Tell me this before I die, Jim,

Will my soul in England be?

For I fought and died for England

For her rights and liberty.

Poem by Tony Chapman

Facts: 1449 British Soldiers died on D-Day.  The British Memorial contains a statue of every man who died. The numbers for missing and wounded were higher.  They landed on Gold Beach. The beach was over 5 miles long.  It was one of 5 beaches.  At the end of the day, they had landed 25,000 men. It was very touching to see the memorials and beaches and to think of all the men who fought and sacrificed.