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JUNO BEACH : 3Rd CANADIAN INFANTRY DIVISION 6 7 8 Memorials 5 rd Other places of interest 3 4 JUNO BEACH : 3 CANADIAN INFANTRY DIVISION 1 2 10 9 Rue Victor Tesnière Rue Victor Tesnière 11 Mairie 5,500 Canadians contributing to the liberation. the to contributing Canadians 5,500 followed the landings, was to last 10 weeks and cost the lives of of lives the cost and weeks 10 last to was landings, the followed Rue Hervé Léguillon bridgeheads were established. The Battle of Normandy, which which Normandy, of Battle The established. were bridgeheads 359 were killed. However, the landings were a success and solid solid and success a were landings the However, killed. were 359 D514 - Route de Ver troops on Juno Beach, with 1,074 casualties, of which which of casualties, 1,074 with Beach, Juno on troops Normandy, including 14,000 Canadians and 8,000 British British 8,000 and Canadians 14,000 including Normandy, On June 6, 1944, 135,000 Allied soldiers landed in in landed soldiers Allied 135,000 1944, 6, June On (British military Unit) Rue du Royal Berkshire Regiment June 6, 1944 6, June 8km of Canadian Landing beaches Landing Canadian of 8km Av. du Gal De Gaulle D514 JUNO BEACH JUNO Chaudière la de Régiment du Rue MAP Général Leclerc D514 Rue du D514 Rue de l' 13 l Lecler12c 14 a églis e Route de Bény Rue du Génér 15 3 5 Bunker on Canada Place 8 Monument for Canadian troops 12 Ernest W. Parker stain-glass window D514 BERNIÈRES-SUR-MER 2 Remnant of a part of the A tribute to the Canadians It was offered by the son of Atlantic Wall, it is now a who died on Juno Beach on Mr. Parker, member of the Royal monument for the Canadian June 6, 1944. A map retraces Army Signal Corps, who landed 1 1 The Signal Memorial and British regiments: the the route of the Canadian in Bernières-sur-Mer on June 6, Stormont, Dundas and troops on D-Day. 1944 with the Queen’s Own Rifles Rue Canet Rue Pasteur Memorial paying tribute to Glengarry Highlanders, of Canada. Visible in the village the Allied troops that started the Queen’s Own Rifles church. the liberation of Europe from of Canada, 22nd Dragoons, and the soldiers of the Royal this location. The memorial Berkshire Regiment who landed with the assault troops. in Bernières was the first of a series of ten. The first 9 Canadian bikes sculpture stone was placed on June SAINT-AUBIN-SUR-MER 6, 1949, inside which a shell was sealed and contains a text A tribute to the Liaison Troops detailing the event. The memorial was officially inaugurated of the 3rd Canadian Infantry on November 15, 1950. These memorials were partly financed Division, which landed on June 6, 1 Fort Garry Horse Monument by the sale of Allied shipwrecks. 1944, equipped with hundreds of 13 War Memorial bicycles in Bernières-sur-Mer. In memory of the men of this War Memorial and monument armoured regiment, whose for the civilians who died during Duplex-Drive tanks swam ashore 2 Canada House the D-Day operations (near the on this beach June 6, 1944. church). Also named House of the Queens’ Own Rifles of Canada as a tribute to the regiment which liberated it. It is situated on the part of Juno Beach code named “Nan White”. 10 Inukshuk 2 Fortified anti-tank gun emplacement 6 Fort Garry Horse Monument In Inuit language, this means This structure is one of the fortifications found 3 Plaque for the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada In memory of the Canadian “Human shape”. Constructed by within the WN27 German soldiers of the 10th Armoured the Inuits of the North of Canada, th 14 Monument for the 14 Field Regiment, defensive sector. This type of In front of Canada House, a plaque Regiment, Fort Garry Horse, who they watch over a sacred place. construction was designed indicates that it was liberated by died on Juno Beach to liberate This one was erected by the local Royal Canadian Artillery rd to house and protect 50mm The second assault wave on June 6, 1944, of the 3 this regiment which experienced Bernières-sur-Mer. municipality in tribute to the Canadian Division, was composed of the 9th Brigade: heavy losses on this beach on Canadian soldiers who died in Dedicated to the men of anti-tank guns, which - The Highland Light Infantry of Canada June 6, 1944. Bernières-sur-Mer on June 6, 1944. this regiment who died on would give enfilading fire along the beach. They had a 6.5km range. The gun still in place today is the one that inflicted - The Stormont Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders this location on June 6, 1944. Erected by Garth Webb, many casualties among the Canadian troops before it was - The North Nova Scotia Highlanders founder of the Juno Beach destroyed by a specialized tank. th - 27 Canadian Armoured Regiment (Sherbrooke Fusiliers) Centre. Numerous other divisions landed in successive waves to back up the front line. 3 Monument to the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment 11 The house of the War Correspondents 15 The Canadian War cemetery in Produced by the Terres de Nacre Tourist Office and the Juno Beach Centre. Comprised of 4 sections The places of interest marked on the map are not exhaustive. Published: December 2018. 4 Plaque for the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 7 Monument for the Régiment de la Chaudière Bény-sur-Mer/Reviers Photo credits: Terres de Nacre Tourist Office, Juno Beach Centre, PAC. This former “Hotel Belle commemorating the North Layout and cartography: In memory of the soldiers In memory of the Plage” was the headquarters Situated on road D35 north Shore (New Brunswick) of the 3rd Canadian Infantry French-Canadians of the of Canadian and British of Reviers. 2,049 graves Regiment, the 48th Royal Division, the Queen’s Own Régiment de la Chaudière, journalists, photographs are taken care of by the Marine Commando, 21 www.terresdenacre.com Rifles of Canada, which commanded by Lieutenant- and cameramen, after the Commonwealth War Graves civilian victims, and the Fort landed in Bernières-sur-Mer Colonel Paul Mathieu, who liberation of the village. From Commission. Garry Horse Regiment, along in the first wave on D-Day. landed in Bernières-sur-Mer, this house, the first reports with a reminder of the mission carried out on August 4, 1940 on June 6, 1944. about the landings was broadcast . by Maurice Duclos, secret agent of the Free French Forces. 21 The Croix de Lorraine COURSEULLES-SUR-MER Memorials rd Other places of interest On June 14, 1944, General de JUNO BEACH : 3 CANADIAN INFANTRY DIVISION Gaulle landed between Graye GRAYE-SUR-MER and Courseulles-sur-Mer. Over the days that followed D-Day, it was absolutely essential that France 1 War Memorial reestablished itself politically to avoid being governed by an Dedicated to the sailors of La Allied government of liberation. In Combattante (Destroyer of the landing on June 14, 1944, De Gaulle Free French naval Forces), the took this potent political initiative, Allied troops, the people of restoring sovereignty to France. Courseulles who died at war This cross symbolizing the event during the First and Second World was unveiled in 1984. Wars, and in homage to General Leclerc. 27 D514 - Route de Ver 22 The Signal Memorial (British military Unit) One of the ten “Signal memorials” erected during the 1950s in 26 Normandy by the “Comité du 2 Monument for the Royal Winnipeg Débarquement”, commemorating Rifles Regiment D514 the events of June 6, 1944. They Av. du Gal can be found in several of the De Gaulle Homage to this regiment, which key landing sites and all bear the D514 th landed on the Courseulles/Graye- same message: “Here on 6 June sur-Mer sector. 1944 the heroism of the Allied D514 Forces liberated Europe”. They were created by the architect Yves-Marie Froidevaux. 23 “One Charlie” Tank Route de Bény This Churchill AVRE tank was a modified version of the second most produced 3 Monument for the Regina Rifles Regiment British tank of the Second World War. This one landed In memory of the 458 men of the on this beach on June 6, 1944 regiment who died during the and soon sunk in a bomb crater. 32 years passed before it was st Second World War. Also plaques 7 1 Hussars “Bold” Tank 11 Inukshuk 21 recovered and put on display. nd 20 13 of the 22 Dragoons and IWT 24 14 (Inland Waterways Transportation This tank was recovered from This memorial pays tribute to the 17 the sea in 1970. The Duplex soldiers of the First Nations of Companies) of the British Royal oie des Fr 15 12 st Drive Sherman (DD) is the Canada who fought during the 22 19 V 11 24 The Polish 1 Armoured Division monument Engineers. e ançai 16 most famous in a range of Second World War. It was built by 25 u s Libr 23 q le r es 9 Following the invasion of Poland special tanks employed by the Inuit shaman Peter Irnik in ul 18 e 10 5 4 a k G 3 in 1939, what remained of the n the Allied forces. Its name is 2005. e d u 8 Polish Army fled to England to due to the dual propulsion l D a . s Avenue de la Combattante continue the fight. 16,000 soldiers system: by track on land and by propeller at sea, and M e 2 u st e q equipped with a flotation system.
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