Two Brothers who remain forever young

 1. Normandy Veterans Association Memorial Tablet
[St Nicholas' Church Gardens, Whitehaven, Cumbria]

 2. Poppies in remembrance of Robert and Joseph Casson
[70th anniversary of D-Day, 6 June 2014]

3. The Casson family headstone (Whitehaven Cemetery)
[It commemorates five members of the family] 

 4. Joseph Casson (left) and Robert Casson (right)
[Two brothers buried side-by-side in Normandy]

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The Tourcoing War Memorial, France (59)

1. "Towards Victory": Tourcoing's War Memorial

2. "Winged Victory": leading the Fallen to victory.

3. The Tourcoing War Memorial (reverse panels)

4. The list of Tourcoing's War Dead (1939 onwards)

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70th Anniversary of D-Day in West Cumbria

1. Order of Service of Remembrance (front cover)
70th anniversary of D-Day
[St Nicholas' Church Gardens, Whitehaven, Cumbria]

 

 2. Floral tributes and poppy crosses
[Normandy Veterans Memorial, Whitehaven, Cumbria]

3. Some of the floral tributes placed in remembrance
[Friday 6 June 2014]

4. Poppy crosses remembering family and friends
[Friday 6 June 2014]

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Tourcoing in the summer of 1944

1. Poster for Tourcoing's "5th June 1944 Museum"

2. Tourcoing Town Hall (Nord), France

3. Tourcoing Town Hall memorials for two F.F.I. fighters

4. Tourcoing's "Peace Tree",  planted 2 April 1995

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The War Memorial for the Diocese of Lille

1. Notre Dame de la Treille Cathedral, Lille

2. The Diocese of Lille War Memorial

The Roman Catholic Cathedral of Lille in northern France [Photograph No. 1] is dedicated to Notre Dame de la Treille. Inside the cathedral is a stone memorial tablet commemorating the diocesan priests, religious and seminarists who lost their lives in WW1, WW2 and the Algerian War [Photograph No. 2].

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Lille remembers the Second World War

 1. 'Melancolia', the War Memorial at Lille (Nord)

[Thursday 8 May 2014: 69th anniversary of V.E. Day]

2. Some of the floral tributes at the Lille War Memorial

[Thursday 8 May 2014]

 3. The chapel dedicated to St Joan of Arc, Lille Cathedral
[Sunday 11 May 2014]

 

4. Prayers for peace at the chapel of St Joan of Arc

[Sunday 11 May 2014]

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Return to Dunkirk

 1. Some Dunkirk Veterans and their wives (May 1990)
West Cumbria Branch members with their wives
[Courtesy of the 'News & Star' (Cumbrian Newspapers)]

2. Dunkirk Memorial Casket and WW2 Memorial.
[St. Nicholas' Chapel, Whitehaven, Cumbria]

3. Dunkirk Memorial Casket and poppy wreath
[With the Association emblem displayed on the handle]

4. St Nicholas' Church Tower and chapel, Whitehaven.
[Where the Dunkirk Memorial Casket is displayed]

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