Ranville War Cemetery Normandy France WWII

A video of the Ranville War Cemetery in Normandy France. This is where Canadian and British paratroopers are buried from the D-Day invasion and the fighting in the weeks that followed. This is where the first Allied casualty of D-Day is buried, and many of the men of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion. Video shot in HD in 2006.

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[lemsdarkapprentice]

Posting this in case someone who might help (or who is a family member) sees this. Sam Wilson died 10.06.1944, UK army id 2764432, from Morley, Yorkshire, England. Trying to trace them as I have something to give to his relatives (free of charge).

[lemsdarkapprentice]

Wow! Never seen this place before (and will probably never go there), but I'm trying to find any living relatives of Sam Wilson (6 Commando, UK) who is buried there.

[startrekfreak900]

@privatebuttercup did you go with leger hollidays?

[wiglaf1000]

Je vous remercie pour vos sacrifices. vous donner votre vie pour un monde meilleur et la liberté.

[privatebuttercup]

I was there on holiday-When we got on the coach to go to pegaus bridge it was a struggle to keep tears down as of the amount ulstermen lying in it

[hastati89]

Was there yesterday and there was a man playing his pipes and walking through the cemetary, thought it was really touching.

[jgriff4740]

we went to visit Ranville from Bournemouth,UK to vist my Grandads grave who died 12th June 1944, beautiful cemetry for a brave man

[Bubublaaa]

Thank you so much for your sacrifice! On behalf of the grandson of a deported french soldier from Brittany...

[Bubublaaa]

Thank you so much for your sacrifice! On behalf of the grandson of a deported french soldier from Brittany...