Please Note: the pages on this website are temporary 
and are being used only to
 help design and develop content for the new
 Fallen Heroes of Normandy website that will be coming online at
 www.fallenheroesofnormandy.org
 in May 2012

 
If you would like to have a link emailed to you when the new website goes online please forward your email address to:
 
 
 
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Welcome to the Fallen Heroes of Normandy Website

To the lasting memory of my relatives who served in the Second World War*
This website is dedicated and published in honour of all those who fought and fell
on land, sea or air across Normandy, France between 1940 and 1945. 

While the memory remains fresh, of those who now rest in the many military cemeteries,
churchyards and communal cemeteries in Normandy, France, there is hope that another
generation of mothers, fathers, sons and daughters need never again experience the
indiscriminate killing, and waste, of total war.


In War: Resolution.
In Defeat: Defiance.
In Victory: Magnanimty.
In Peace: Goodwill.

                                Winston S. Churchill, 1948.

The Fallen Heroes of Normandy project was officially launched in 2009, and aims to provide a free-to-access online archive that will provide details of those who were killed, of all nationalities, during the Second World War and who now rest in one of the many war cemeteries, churchyards or communal cemeteries on the battlefields of Normandy France. 

This website will, between now and 2015, provide a database containing data available from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and a photographs of every headstone in Normandy.

In addition, photographs of the individuals, their original grave markers and details of the circumstances around their deaths will also be included when, and if, this information becomes available. Further information about individuals and their units will also be added, as will details and photographs of each of the cemeteries, communal cemeteries and churchyards. 

Further details about this project can be found on our about us page.

Use the above tabs to navigate your way around this site.
Please excuse any missing or incomplete information or sections.
This website is presently a work-in-progress, and maintained only by a very small group of volunteers.
If you would like to help contribute information to this website, please look at our

For progress and news of recent updates please click on the Latest Updates & Website Progress page.

If you are able to provide any information or photographs about any individual
who is buried in Normandy, please forward your information to


All contributors will be duly acknowledged. For further details about submitting information
or photographs please look at our Appeal for Information & Submission Guidelines page.

                                              Carl Shilleto
                                                                      (www.carlshilleto.co.uk)
(Fallen Heroes of Normandy Project founder & coordinator)

                       

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*In lasting memory of:

Lance Bombardier Charles Booth
(East Yorkshire Regiment, 115th LAA Regiment, Royal Artillery & Duke of Wellington's Regiment 1940 - 1946)
Wounded in Italy 1944.

Lance Corporal Donald Hepworth
(West Yorkshire Regiment, 7th Norfolk Regiment & Corps of Military Police 1929 - 1946)
Wounded in France 1940, Prisoner-of-War 1940-1941.


Lance Corporal Bernard M. Shilleto
(West Yorkshire Regiment, 7/9th  Royal Scots & 52nd (Lowland) Reconnaissance Regiment 1934 - 1946)
Wounded in France 1940 and Germany 1945. Awarded Commander-in-Chief's Certificate for Gallantry

Private Mieczyslaw P. Zientek
 (1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade 1944 - 1948)
Prisoner-of-War 1944.

RIP