75 YEARS AGO

At close of day . . . . . 

The 'Get Jim To Number One' Campaign - Download & support The British Normandy Memorial https://www.normandymemorialtrust.org...

In 1944 Jim Radford was a 15 year old ‘galley boy’ serving with the Merchant Navy on the Empire Larch.

On the morning of 6th June, his first deep sea trip took him to Normandy to help build the Mulberry Harbour, allowing the Royal Navy to transport personnel, vehicles and supplies onto the beaches.


25 years later Jim returned to find a very different scene. Children were playing where soldiers had died and Jim was moved to tears. His emotional song tells that story.

Jim is releasing his music to raise funds for the British Normandy Memorial. Download the song now and support the British Normandy Memorial. iTunes link - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/sho... Amazon link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07S2DB6F... Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/track/6AqTXy... Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/music/a... Deezer - https://www.deezer.com/en/track/68151... The Normandy Memorial Trust was established in 2016 to deliver the British Normandy Memorial after a £20m LIBOR grant was secured by D-Day veteran George Batts from Prime Minister David Cameron. The British Normandy Memorial overlooking Gold Beach in the town of Ver-sur-Mer will record the names of the 22,442 men and women who serving under British Command died on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy. The core funding for the memorial has come from the government's LIBOR fund and to complete the memorial to the standard that is fitting the Trust is seeking a further £9 million in funding. The memorial has been designed by British architect Liam O’Connor and features a significant landscape setting with a central 'memorial court' and a 'cloister garden' formed by stone piers onto which the names of those who died will be cut. Follow the progress www.normandymemorialtrust.org