Major new D-Day memorial to British killed in Normandy landings

The casualties of the D-Day landings are to be remembered by a special monument which the Government is contributing £20 million towards.

The memorial to those who died in the Normandy campaign will be erected at the site of fierce fighting which took place during and after the Allied landings in France in 1944.

The monument will be unveiled on the 75th anniversary of D-Day in 2019.

It will carry the names of the estimated 21,000 members of the British armed forces and Merchant Navy, as well as those from other nations who fought alongside them, who lost their lives in the campaign.