Normandy Veterans Association Memorial - Leeds, UK
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This Normandy Veterans Association memorial plaque stands in the Merrion Street Rest Garden.
Waymark Code: WM16VMD
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/11/2022
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The Normandy Veterans Association
"The Normandy Veterans' Association (NVA) was an association formed in 1981 of ex-servicemen and women who served in the 1944 Normandy invasion.
The association was represented at the 70th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy in June 2014. Due to dwindling numbers the association decided to disband in November 2014. The last official engagement of the association took place at St Margaret's, Westminster (Westminster Abbey) on 16 October 2014.
The National Standard of the NVA was 'laid up' at Westminster Abbey with a plaque that reads: "The Standard of the Normandy Veterans' Association was laid up on Thursday 16th October 2014 in the presence of His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester, KG., GCVO, Patron, Normandy Veterans Association"
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This memorial is in the form of an inscribed stone tablet on the ground of Merrion Street Rest Garden close to St John the Evangelist's Church.
The garden opened in 1932 using funds from the Trustees of the Wades charity who left money in his will of 1530 to be used for the benefit of the citizens of Leeds.
The garden was refurbished in 2006 on behalf of the Trustees of the Wades Charity by Leeds City Council and Yorkshire Fund.
NVA
NORMANDY
1944
NORMANDY VETERANS ASSOCIATION
IN MEMORY OF THOSE FROM ALL NATIONS
WHO SERVED IN THE ALLIED
AND CIVILIAN FORCES
ON LAND, AT SEA OR IN THE AIR
DURING THE NORMANDY CAMPAIGN
JUNE TO AUGUST
1944
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
FROM LEEDS 61 BRANCH
NORMANDY VETERANS ASSOCIATION