For thousands of soldiers and sailors, waiting for the D-Day invasion was a test of nerves. https://ww2thebigone.com/2016/06/01/the-clock-ticks-down-to-d-day/
Roll of Honour D Day. 30 years anniversary of the Normandy invasion. For the British combatants who paid the ultimate sacrifice remembered by those left behind....a newspaper cutting of mine...from the paper and text,it looks like the old Yorkshire Evening Post from 1974. Evidence then that relatives were unaware of the fates of their loved ones....."presumed killed D Day"...."missing presumed dead"...."presumed killed June 6 D Day" from the published In Memoriam columns. Times have moved on to where the CWGC on line can give an insight to the fate of casualties. One memoriam, Thomas Finn of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, leads to the question of what was his regiment engaged in, in Cherbourg when he was killed on 19 June 1944?
