Denneville

The ceremony at Denneville, was not related to the liberation, but rather to the fall of France. On June 18th 1940, the Germans advance into Normandy led by Rommel and his tanks, was halted here by a small group of soldiers from France, Britain and North Africa. They were poorly armed but held Rommel back long enough to enable 30,000 troops to escape from Cherbourg back to England.
The ceremony here was to honour the British an French who died in one of the last battles for France. The eight British soldiers who were killed here when their lorry hit a mine came from the Royal Artillery. The sole survivor Geoffrey Goodman was able to come back to France for the ceremony. The link below tells the history of the Last Battle For France