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Shellfire over Sword Beach: HM Land Registry staff on D-Day, 6 June 1944

Posted by: Peter Mayer, Posted on: 6 June 2019 - Categories: Historic
Troops digging in on a beach.

Two young men from HM Land Registry were among the British troops who landed in Normandy on D-Day 75 years ago today. Our amateur historian Peter Mayer tells their stories.

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