A veteran tank crewman who lost both his legs after landing on Gold Beach on D-Day has died at the age of 99. Roy Hayward went from basic training at Bovington Camp in Dorset to landing in ...
After the parade, over in the Hotel de Normandie cafe overlooking Gold Beach, diners set down their knives and forks and ...
at the eastern end of Gold Beach – which records the names of more than 22,000 servicemen and women under British command who fell on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy in the summer of 1944.
D-day is simply a standard armed forces way of ... lost 90% of its men. On Gold Beach, by contrast, casualty rates were around 80% lower. The allies put a huge effort into persuading the Germans ...
The decorated D-Day veteran stormed ashore on Gold Beach in June 1944, was part of the bloody fight to capture occupied France, and later helped liberate Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.