Memorials

Many memorials testify to the military, political stake and history which was played hermanville sur mer at the time of the two world wars.

The norwegian monument “the sailor”  The Norwegian Monument “the Sailor”, inaugurated on June 7, 2004, in the presence of its majesty the King of Norway Harald V. the monument “the Sailor” was set up with Hermanville-on-Sea, on the place of the Billhook, in homage to the 34 Norwegian sailors who first were died preceding the phase by Unloading of June 6, 1944. Their Destroyer, the SVENNER, was torpedoed whereas it ensured the protection of the Ships transporting the troops which were to unload with Hermanville-on-sea. Its anchor, fished out recently on our coasts by the Norwegian marine, was placed besides at the foot of the monument.

The monument of the sailors of royal the navy  Place Felix Faure - the Monument of the sailors of Royal Navy. This monument is dedicated to all the sailors of all the marines of allied war and trade which perished in Normandy for the release of Europe.

Char churchill avre mk 3  On June 6, 1944 at 7:30 am, 70 Churchill tanks modified and equipped with fascines, plagues, bomb thrower and bridges, unloaded of 10 barges and released the beach of 200 m, so that the troops can unload in full safety. This Churchill Avre MK III commemorates the memory of all those which fought and died on these beaches. Tank AVRE Churchill “detonator” was transferred to Imperial War Museum from DUXFORD. It is replaced by a tank CENTAUR.

Avenue harold pickersgill  (to Dover-the-délivrance) On June 6, 2004, the commune inaugurated the avenue Harold Pickersgill in the presence of his children. Harold PICKERSGILL is made incorporate in a battalion of infantry and it is a few months transferred later to the Recognition Body, a regiment of autoblindés of the 3rd Division lately created. It belongs to about thirty Men who, since 1943, are agents of a heavy secrecy: the place and the date of the unloading. It does not know Normandy because it never came there, but gradually, by interposed charts, it will become acquainted with the coast. It will unload in Hermanville, will make all the countryside in the Intelligence section since the beaches of Normandy until Delmenhorst, close to Bremen. Its regiment made up of 700 men will be confined around Mathieu, before being moved in Saint-Aubin-D' Arquenay. Its stay with Mathieu will last one month. It is during this prolonged stay that it will become acquainted with a young person and pretty mathieusaine, Marie-Genevieve Lebret: she will become his wife.