Bronze plaque № 54173

Warsash, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom

The Normandy D-Day Landings. 6th June 1944. On the evening of June 5th 1944, 3000 Commandos sailed from the Hamble river bound for France. They embarked from a pier opposite the Rising Sun in 36 Landing Craft of the 1st L.C.I.(S) Squadron based om H.M.S. Tormentor, Warsash. In the leading craft comm

anded by Lieut-Commander R.Curtis D.S.C., R.N.V.R. sailed Brigadier Lord Lovat D.S.O., M.C. with his piper. The skirl of the bagpipes and the long line of craft, their decks crowded with Commandos in

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