D-Day 80 Cyril Goodwin

Peterborough Telegraph

A moving commemoration to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day has been held for a Peterborough soldier who was mortally wounded during the 1944 Normandy landings.

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00:30Cyril landed on Sword Beach at half-past eight on the 6th of June with as part of

00:45the 1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment. We believe he got off the beach to the

00:51second objective which was the Hillman bunker. He was shot in the leg, he was

00:56evacuated back to the beach to wait for a ship back to Blighty. Unfortunately on

01:02the beach he was injured by shrapnel or a mortar fire something and that was a

01:09mortal wound and he died two days later in Portsmouth.

01:26It's evoked memories, emotions I didn't even know I had. I mean obviously I've

01:45grown up with Cyril in the back of our minds every D-Day, every Remembrance

01:52Sunday, that sort of thing, but today was much deeper, much deeper, really.

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