1944 – 2024: 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY AND THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY
Thu 06 Jun
|Normandy, France
We will be there!
Time & Location
06 Jun 2024, 06:30 – 23:50
Normandy, France
About the event
Two members of St Andrews Pipe Band will be joining in and will be piping at some of the events commemorating the 80th Anniversary of D -Day Landings and the Battle of Normandy that led to the liberation of France and Europe!
We will be piping at: Pegasus Beach, Sword Beach, Juno Beach, just a few to mention, remembering the British as well as Canadian Troops.
We are honoured to have been specifically asked to remember and pipe for Corporal Ralph Winston Hadley M/31606/ Canadian Scottish Regiment on Juno Beach.
The regiment mobilised the 1st Battalion, The Canadian Scottish Regiment for active service on 24th may 1940. It embarked for Britain on 25th August 1941.
On D-Day, 6th June 1944, it landed in Normandy, France, as part of the 7th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, and it continued to fight in North-West Europe until the end of the war.