St Charles de Percy War Cemetery, Calvados, France.
Video of St Charles de Percy War Cemetery in Calvados, France. St Charles de Percy War Cemetery is the southernmost of the Normandy cemeteries. The majority of those buried here died in late July and early August 1944 in the major thrust made from Caumont l'Evente towards Vire, to drive a wedge between the German 7th Army and Panzer Group West.
The cemetery contains 809 Second World War burials.
This is one of a number of vids I've uploaded of CWGC sites - search on g4shf CWGC to find them.
St. Charles-de-Percy
Our visit to France in September 2005 -- Cemetery where Arthur Miron is buried.
D-Day 70th Anniversary Ceremony at St Charles de Percy & Montchamp, France
6th June 2014 - D-Day 70th Anniversary - Remembrance Ceremonies and a Presentation to the Veterans at The British War Cemetery, St Charles de Percy & Le Monument des Deportes, Montchamp, France.
Normandy Beaches
Around Arromanche, Utah Beach and the cemetery at St Charles de Percy. (1992)
Ranville War Cemetery
The World War II cemeteries that dot the Norman countryside are filled with foreigners -- most of the French dead are buried in the churchyards of their home towns. After the war, some felt that the soldiers should remain buried in the original makeshift graves that were dug where they fell. Instead, commissions gathered the remains into purpose-built cemeteries devoted to the separate warring nations.
Beny-Sur Canadian War Cemetery, Normandy, France
Poppy Day
War cemetery at St Charles de Percy, Normandy, France
Sgt Percy Rowe aka Paddy Rowan, Heilly Station Cemetery
Video footage of Sgt Percy Rowe's grave.
Heilly Station Cemetery,
Heilly
Departement de la Somme
Picardie, France
Further information:
findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56163503
Tour 2016 Percy en Normandie
Images tournées pour le tour de France en Normandie
Homage to T.L. Schioler, and compatriots
Thomas Lorne Schioler
Service Number: J/86203
Age: 20, died March 24, 1944
Force: Air Force, Pilot Officer (Air Gunner)
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 78 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
Son of Kai B. Schioler and Olina Schioler; of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Cemetery: BERLIN 1939-1945 WAR CEMETERY, Germany
Grave Reference: 9. B. 22.
Commemorated on Page 437 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Sgt Freddy Harris of Canada died on D.Day 6th June 1944 aged 23.
A compilation about just one Canadian Soldiers final resting place in Normandy. A lot of the photos I've used were taken around Arromanche - the Canadian beach head Juno was just along a bit further. The poem by Cyril Crain I first discovered at the D.Day museum in Portsmouth many years before I visted the Canadian cemetry at Beny Sur Mer in Normandy. Cyril Crain had written several poems as the experience of D.Day obviously left its' mark on him. When I located this grave there was a note with his neices address on for anyone with information with the Harris family to contact her.
315TH INF REGT, 79TH DIVISION, LA HAYE DU PUIT, FRANCE, BERNIERES, ST AUBIN, GERMAN PO - LMWWIIHD146
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79th Infantry Division in La Haye Du Puits, France. German POWS July 1944
US SOLDIERS WALKING THROUGH ABANDONED TOWN LA HAYE DU PUITS TWO SOLDIERS ENTER ABANDONED SHOP TOWN GERMAN PRISONERS MARCHING CLOSE UP OF GERMAN PRISONER US MEDIC AND TROOPS AROUND BODY COVER BODY US MEDICS TREAT WOUNDED MAN ON GROUND US MEDICS GATHERED US MEDIC TREATS WOUNDED MAN ON GROUND MEDICS GATHERED ABANDONED TOWN DUSTY SOLDIER SOLDIER WALK ABANDONED TOWN US SOLDIERS WALK ALONG PATH TOWN US SOLDIERS WALK THROUGH GRASS PATH TOWN ABANDONED RUIN TRUCK DRIVES THROUGH ABANDONED TOWN US SOLDIERS WALK US SOLDIERS RUN THROUGH GRASS RUBBLE ABANDONED TOWN TRUCK US SOLDIERS WALK DOWN ABANDONED TOWN PATH US SOLDIERS WALK THROUGH ABANDONED TOWN PATH ROVER DRIVES BY US SOLDIERS STANDING AGAINST DESTROYED BUILDING WALL RUBBLE US SOLDIERS WALK THROUGH RUBBLE INSIDE RUINED BUILDING SOLDIERS SITTING ALONG ABANDONED BUILDING WALL PRISONERS POWS STANDING AGAINST WALL US SOLDIER GUARDS RUBBLE CLOSE UP GERMAN PRISONERS POWS US SOLDIERS WALK WITH POW HANDS UP PRISONER ANOTHER PRISONER STANDS AGAINST WALL POW POW GERMAN PRISONER GETS SEARCHED BY US SOLDIER US SOLDIERS WALKING THROUGH ABANDONED TOWN TRUCK RUBBLE US SOLDIERS GATHERED TALK STAND SIT BUILDING STAIRS HAPPY SMILE SHAKE HANDS july 9 1944 Tug Boats BOAT DOCKS BOATS NEAR TOWN MOUNT BATTEN BRITISH OFFICERS SHAKE HANDS NEAR PLANE SMILE THREE OFFICERS TALKING PLANES IN BACKGROUND OFFICER WALKS SHAKES DRIVERS HAND GETS IN JEEP DRIVES SMILES OFFICER WALKING THROUGH WOODS SHAKES HAND SMILES OFFICER WALKS IN TO HUT TAKES HAT OFF OFFICERS TALKING IN HUT GATHERING SPEECH OUTSIDE OF HUT OFFICER DRIVES AWAY IN JEEP MEN IN SMALL BOAT RIVER FERRY MEN UNLOADING FROM BOAT ON TO LAND MEN LOADING ON TO SMALL BOAT WOUNDED MAN LOADED ON TO SMALL BOAT SMALL BOAT SAILING ACROSS RIVER WOODEN PORT RIVER LOADING ON TO FERRY VEHICLE MOVING DIRT MOVING FERRY
D-Day 70
Slide Show recording a trip back to Normandy by Cpt. David Tibbs MC 4th-6th June 2014.
• Putot-en-Auge where David was wounded and very nearly died,
• Ceremony at the Pegasus Museum,
• Veterans lunch with Prince Charles,
• Parachute drop first by the Red Devils including a tandem jump by a veteran Jock Hutton (a mere 89) .
• Mass jump of 300 British, Canadian, American & French men & women from Dakotas, C130s and a French plane that I can't remember the name of!
• Ceremony at the Ranville Crossroads,
• Ceremony at the Ranville War Cemetery, also the Church yard next to it where David's Orderly L.Cpl. Russell is buried.
• Finally drinks and food at a café at the Ranville crossroads.
2014 D-Day 70th Anniversary Ceremony
Ryes War Cemetery, Bazenville, France.
Video of Ryes War Cemetery in Bazenville, France. This is one of a number of vid's of CWGC and D-Day sites I've posted - search on g4shf D-Day.
Grave desecration!
This families' beautiful grave/garden of rest was turned into a sad dumping ground, by the Vicar! Why? because the vicar decided that, after five years of their children and grandchildren lovingly tending to the grave, he has decided that he no longer wants artificial flowers, fencing or ornaments on the grave. So he took everything but the 'real' flowers from the grave and dumped them on the ground and in black bags behind the headstone. We just want everyone to know the pain and heartache he has caused.
Ypres - Flanders Field War Graves & Countryside
Here's a very short video of a small collection of photos I took while cycling round Flanders Fields, Belgium. Incredibly moving and humbling experience, so thought I would piece some of favourites together.
British Cemeteries II (Normandy)
Nine of sixteen British war cemeteries in Normandy meticulously maintained by Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Hermanville War Cemetery, Normandy, France.
Video of the Hermanville War Cemetery and Hermanville on the Normandy coast. This is one of a number of video's I've uploaded of Commonwealth War Grave Cemetery's - search on g4shf CWGC. The village of Hermanville lay behind Sword beach and was occupied early on 6 June by men of the South Lancashire regiment. Later the same day, the Shropshire Light Infantry supported by the armour of the Staffordshire Yeomanry managed to reach and hold Bieville-Benville, four kilometres to the south of Hermanville. Many of those buried in Hermanville War Cemetery died on 6 June or during the first days of the drive towards Caen.
The cemetery contains 1,003 Second World War burials, 103 of them unidentified.
Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany
This is a video showing the Commonwealth War Grave cemetery at Durnbach, Germany.
Durnbach is a village 16 kilometres east of Bad Tolz, a town 48 kilometres south of Munich. Durnbach War Cemetery is 3 kilometres north of the village.
The video pans and shows the cemetery in almost its entirety and although it shows mainly the graves of the crew of Lancaster bomber ED627, EM-N of 207 Squadron RAF flown by PO Arthur Marcus Fitzgerald who were shot down and killed on the 28th August 1943, it will be welcomed by the many relatives of all the other deceased in the cemetery as they are now able to see where their loved ones are buried.