MEMORIES of York’s Normandy Veterans are being collected by Explore York Libraries and Archives as part of the city’s Gateway to History project.
Seventy years after the D-Day landings, the veterans’ stories are being gathered before they pass out of living memory by Sarah Tester, the community collections and outreach archivist at Explore, who is working with Nick Beilby, a representative of the Normandy Veterans Association, and a group of volunteers from the University of York.
The collections will be made accessible to the public for the first time at York Explore library from mid 2015.
Mr Beilby said: “By working with these wonderful people and engaging in `living history` their lives and achievements will be preserved for future generations who will understand how their deeds have helped shape the world that we now live in.”
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