Title:'D-DAY PLUS TEN' MEMORIAL CEREMONY AT BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY, NORMANDY, 5 JUNE 1955 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NAT 1492
Other titles:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:Servicemen, including Royal Welsh Fusiliers, bugle band, Scottish pipers, Royal Navy personnel, French troops (with colour guard) and Welsh platoon (with picks and shovels in place of rifles) march into Bayeux War Cemetery, where crowd has gathered before the memorial. Dignitaries arrive and inspect troops: these include the Duke of Gloucester, Field Marshal Montgomery, General Ganneval and General Schuyler. The Duke performs unveiling ceremony on Commonwealth Memorial. Hymns are sung and wreaths are laid. Pipers play as dignitaries salute. The Duke of Gloucester tours the cemetery with VIPs before leaving in his Rolls-Royce. Relatives place flowers on grave of soldier.
The memorial stone on the beach at Courselles: Paul Dubois points out aspects of the landings to Sergeant E G Smith and Staff Sergeant Robert Lee (Canadians).
Members of US 1st Infantry Division (stationed at Würzberg, Germany) at the cenotaph at "Omaha" Beach: Lieutenant Colonel William R Washington lays wreath. In the US war cemetery, Sergeant T L Dobol (Newark, New Jersey) lays wreath on the grave of General Theodore Roosevelt Jr, as riflemen fire salute and bugle plays the Last Post.
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Alternative Title:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
