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Memorials Headquarter Third Division and Field Hospital Hermanville-sur-Mer

In Hermanville-sur-Mer, there are 2 plaques who remembers the fact that the Third British Division had set up his headquarters here and the field hospital which was located here.

The text on the plaque on the left:
THE THIRD
BRITISH INFANTRY DIVISION
SET UP ITS HEADQUARTERS HERE
ON D-DAY JUNE 6TH 1944


The text on the plaque on the right:
6 JUIN 1944
ICI FUT LE QUARTIER GENERAL
DES TROUPES DEBARQUEES
ET
CENTRE SANITAIRE
IMPORTANT


The translation of the text:
6 JUNE 1944
HERE WAS THE HEADQUARTERS
FROM THE LANDED TROOPS
AND
AN IMPORTANT
FIELD HOSPITAL

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