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“SANDY” ARTHUR ALEXANDER BALLANTINE

Learn about Sandy and many others in Stories at the British Normandy Memorial.

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He was only 14 and working at Shaw’s Brickworks in Darwen when he decided to enrol in the Home Guard.

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Victor Charles Baines

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Thomas Hopson

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Albert Edward Hunter

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Ludvík Košek and the crew of Liberator BZ717

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Michael Lane

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Lawrence Alfred Larcombe

George Lea

Thomas Ledger

Albert Edward Lee

William Leeming

John Alex Carl Lehto

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Sydney Letts

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Jack Lewis

William Thomas Lewis

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George Littlepage

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William Lloyd

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Harold Lowis

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Ronald Albert Mealand

Sam Wadsworth Megson

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Clifford Meredith

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Charles William Miller

Ronald Vincent Millership

Thomas Hardwyre Milligan

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Donald Molyneux

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William Albert Moore

Miroslav Moravec

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Eric David Newman

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Christopher Nicholls

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Richard Nunn

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Nicholas O'Connell

Daniel O'Leary

Patrick O'Malley

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Harry Albert Oliver

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Robert Stanley Phillips

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Eric Plumtree

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George Thomas Pollard

William Arthur Pope

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Kenneth John Price

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Harold Pritchard

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Charles William Renshaw

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Joseph Edward Reynolds

Reginald George Reynolds

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Robert Lloyd Richards

Harold Richardson

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Benjamin Ritterband

Geoffrey Neil Robbins

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Eric Frederick George Roberts

Harry Robertson

Henry Richard Robinson

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Percy Rogers

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William Alfred Rycroft

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William John Thomson

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