General Sir Richard Gale

General Sir Richard Gale is a memorial in Ranville, Arrondissement of Lisieux, Normandy. General Sir Richard Gale is situated nearby to the library Le Jardin de Papier, as well as near Town hall of Ranville.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Town hall of Ranville and Église Notre-Dame de Ranville.

Town hall of Ranville

Town hall

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Église Notre-Dame de Ranville

Church

Photo: Roi.dagobert, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Église Notre-Dame de Ranville is a church, which is situated 110 metres west of General Sir Richard Gale.

Ranville War Cemetery is a Second World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France, located in Ranville, 10 km north east of Caen, Normandy. The cemetery contains predominantly British soldiers killed during the early stages of the Battle of Normandy. Ranville War Cemetery is situated 170 metres southwest of General Sir Richard Gale.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ranville and Hérouvillette.

Ranville

Village

Photo: ChBougui, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ranville is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Ranville was the first French village liberated on D-Day.

Hérouvillette

Village

Photo: Roi.dagobert, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hérouvillette is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Amfreville

Village

Photo: Ikmo-ned, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Amfreville is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.

General Sir Richard Gale

Type: Memorial
Inscription: “General Sir Richard Gale 1892-1982 Commander of the British 6th Airborne Division which landed by parachute and glider here on the 6th June 1944 in the van of the Allied invasion to free occupied Europe...”
Category: historic site
Location: Ranville, Arrondissement of Lisieux, Calvados, Normandy, France, Europe
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Latitude

49.23192° or 49° 13′ 55″ north

Longitude

-0.25687° or 0° 15′ 25″ west

Open location code

8CXX6PJV+Q7

OpenStreetMap ID

node 8464311649

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Le Jardin de Papier and École maternelle Marlène Jobert.

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