- Title: Gale and Montgomery honour fallen paratroopers of Operation Overlord
- Date: 6th June 1949
- Summary: Gaumont British Ident SLATE INFORMATION: Anniversary Pilgrimage to Normandy FRANCE: Ranville: Various: EXT GALE GENERAL SIR RICHARD Lays wreath on memorial at the Village of Ranville, in anniversary pilgrimage to Normandy, MILITARY BRITISH Men of the Airborne division, Kneeling & standing beside the graves of men who fell in the invasion, at the village of Ranville in Normandy, FIELD MARSHALL MONTGOMERY In the village of Ranville in Normandy, speaking to parents & relatives of soldiers who fell in the invasion, on the anniversary pilgrimage to Normandy, NORMANDY Pilgrimage to graves by relatives at the village of Ranville in Normandy, shots of Lieut-Gen Gale wreath on memorial, shots of rows of crosses, with air-borne men standing by them,also Gen Montgomery there,seen speaking to relatives, & to French under-groundmen, France; World War II; Military - Ceremonial ceremony, Operation Tonga, Pegasus Bridge, 6th Airborne Division, General Sir Richard Nelson Gale, Battle of Normandy, Sword Beach, Caen Canal, Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, anniversary, casualties, grave, fatalities, underground, French resistance, relatives, parents
- Embargoed: 21st June 1949 13:00
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- Location: France
- Country: France
- Topics: Obituaries,People
- Reuters ID: LVA39IQVQUO4QZNRAQPEA2GUHQH6
- Story Text: In Ranville's village cemetery, Major-General Richard Gale and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery lay wreaths on the memorial for British soldiers of the 6th Airborne Division who died during the invasion of Normany five years earlier
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