TO mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Beaminster Museum will be holding a special exhibition on the event when the museum opens for the season.
To introduce this exhibition, Chris Copson, curator of the Keep Military Museum in Dorchester, will describe the role of Dorset in the preparation for the invasion. This will be the last of this season’s Beaminster Museum winter talk series.
A spokesperson for the museum said: “By 1944, with the invasion of occupied France imminent, the southern counties of England had begun to resemble a vast armed camp.
“At the centre of these preparations was the county of Dorset, which hosted a huge variety of units from the 1st US Infantry Division to the Airborne 12th Battalion of the Devonshire regiment. The 1st Battalion the Dorsetshire Regiment would also play an important part, landing on Gold Beach as part of the 231 Malta Brigade.”
The talk, ‘Setting the scene for the invasion of Normandy’ will take place on Tuesday, March 19 at Beaminster Museum from 2.30pm.
Everyone is welcome and entry costs £3.
Comments: Our rules
We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused.
Please report any comments that break our rules.
Read the rules here