Thursday 5 June 2014

D Day Memorial

These stones, erected in the Victoria Country Park at Netley overlooking Southampton Water commemorate the memory of those who took part in the D Day operation.



The inscription reads:

Write on this stone,
No words of sadness,
Only the gladness due.

That we who asked the most of living
Know how to give it too

Frank Thompson 1920 -1944

Seventy years ago on the eve of d Day, those who took part were waiting or boarding the flotilla of craft in the creeks and harbours of the Solent; an armada which took them across the channel to change the course of recent history.

Our gladness seems all too little, but we give it gladly and with thanks.

3 comments:

  1. This commenter will never fully realize the weight of D Day. What I do know is that I am forever in gratitude of those who jumped from the Higgins boats and ran for the dunes on that day in 1944.

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  2. Too damn right... I was watching the footage of the old boys talking in Normandy about their memories of the day on BBC this morning and I'm not afraid to say it bought a tear to my eye...

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  3. Likewise
    Having been to Normandy beaches several times, I still find it difficult to comprehend what it must have been like and how brave men were

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