ROLL OF HONOUR

Search the Names. Discover the Stories.

Before visiting, students are encouraged to begin their journey with the Memorial’s Digital Roll of Honour — an opportunity to move from name to individual, from inscription to story.

Using the search tool, students can:

• Find fallen servicemen and women from their local area
• Search for individuals who share their surname
• Select a named individual to research in greater depth

With support from the Normandy Memorial Trust’s researcher and structured research guidelines, students investigate one individual’s life and service. Verified research is added to the Memorial’s permanent records and credited to both the student and their school.

This preparation creates a powerful moment when they visit the Memorial and stand before the name that they have researched, understanding the life behind it.

View Research Guidelines opens to research guide pdf

The Roll of Honour – Search

The British Normandy Memorial commemorates 22,541 individuals — British service personnel and those of other nationalities serving under British command who died on D-Day or during the Battle of Normandy. Those remembered came from more than 30 different countries, including France, Australia, Canada, Poland, the USA and many other countries.

Stories of the fallen

The Roll of Honour exists not only as a record of sacrifice, but as a starting point for deeper understanding. Each name represents a life, a family, and a story waiting to be rediscovered.

Thanks to submissions from relatives, researchers, schools and local communities, the Trust has been able to piece together many of these individual stories — restoring detail, personality and humanity to the names carved in stone. Letters, photographs, service records and family memories allow us to understand not only how these men and women died, but how they lived — who they were, where they came from, and what mattered to them.

Every name a life.

Every life a story.

Schools wishing to submit research material to complement an existing Roll of Honour entry may do so by emailing up to 500 words and up to five photographs to: contact@britishnormandymemorial.org