Trip to Normandy - part 2

As promised another photo dump from my Normandy trip. First up is the Commonwealth War graves. I have to admit I was in awe of this memorial. All those columns with lists of men who lost their lives in the Normandy command. Makes you realise how grateful we are to their sacrifice. I did manage to get a photo of the silhouettes they are putting in place for the 80th anniversary.

After our visit here we then made our way to the Overlord museum which is not far from the Omaha beach. Wish we had had the time to make it across. This museum had loads on show, but it was very dark making taking decent photos difficult.

On our last day we had a slight change from D-Day battles and made our way over to the town of Dieppe. This was the location of the failed landings by predominantly Canadian troops in 1942. You can see by the pebble beach that both tanks and infantry would struggle to get across. The promenade has a number of commemorative plaques to the different units that landed there. 

After our tour of the town we stopped off for some refreshments in the Le Cambridge pub. Quite a nice pint after a long day. My brother is now planning a trio for next year back in Normandy, hopefully a little closer to the beaches this time.