Cochrane Branch 89 of the Royal Canadian Legion is planning an observance on this coming Monday, of the 78th anniversary of D-Day.
Canadian servicemen were among the Allied forces who staged the biggest seaborne invasion in history, landing on the beaches of Normandy. It began the liberation of France from the Nazis and set the foundation for the Allied victory on the Western Front.
Branch 89 president Alain Sicard says a procession begins at 10:30am from the Legion on Sixth Ave. to the Cochrane Civic Cemetery.
“We’ll walk to the cemetery and then there’ll be a little service and then we’ll put the poppies on the graves and all that of soldiers and everything like that,” he tells My Cochrane Now Dot Com.
Alain Sicard says it’s important to remember, “so we don’t forget the sacrifice they made for our freedom. It’s very important. We lost a lot of people.”
Canadian forces suffered 1,074 casualties and 359 deaths.
The public is welcome to join the Legionnaires at the cemetery at about 10:45am Monday, June 6.