Today is the 80th anniversary of the "Greatest Raid"; Operation Chariot in St. Nazaire.
The fallen from this audacious raid are remembered by the CWGC in Escoublac-la-Baule War Cemetery to the west of St Nazaire among the 325 British and Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. These include Sergeant Thomas Frank Durrant, who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his gallantry conduct during the raid. Many of those who have no known grave are commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial.
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