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The Ranville War Cemetery is a Second World War cemetery containing predominantly British soldiers killed during the early stages of the Battle of Normandy. It is located in and named after Ranville in the Calvados department, east of Caen in lower Normandy. A large proportion of those interred were members of the British 6th Airborne Division.
The village of Ranville was the first to be liberated by elements of the British 6th Airborne Division on the morning of 6 June 1944 (D-Day) when the nearby bridge (Pegasus Bridge) was attacked and captured. The cemetery contains the grave of Lieutenant Den Brotheridge - considered to be the first Allied death on D-Day.
The churchyard was immediately used to accommodate battlefield dead. Following the end of the war, the war cememtery was created which gathered burials from locations including Amfreville, Colleville-sur-Colombelles, Houlgate, Orne and Villers-sur-Mer.
RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
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Country:
France
Locality:
Calvados
Identified Casualties:
2139
Location Information
Ranville is best reached by taking the D513 north-eastwards out of Caen, and after about 9 kilometres turning left at Herouvillette. Go north for one kilometre and then turn left into Ranville village. The War Cemetery is on Rue des Airbornes.
Historical Information
The Allied offensive in north-western Europe began with the Normandy landings of 6 June 1944.
Ranville was the first village to be liberated in France when the bridge over the Caen Canal was captured intact in the early hours of 6 June by troops of the 6th Airborne Division, who were landed nearby by parachute and glider. Many of the division's casualties are buried in Ranville War Cemetery and the adjoining churchyard
The CEMETERY contains 2,236 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 90 of them unidentified. There are also 323 German graves and a few burials of other nationalities.
The CHURCHYARD contains 47 Commonwealth burials, one of which is unidentified, and one German grave.
RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Normandy British Commonwealth War Cemeteries in Calvados, France
Roll of Honour
Location: Next to, and south of, Ranville village church and churchyard. From the west take the D514 over the Caen Canal and River Orne then take the 2nd exit at the roundabout onto the D37. At 650 yards (594 metres) take a right turn onto the Rue de la Vallée and take the first left onto Chemin de Longueville. At the next crossroads, next to the church, at 280 yards (256 metres), continue straight across along the Rue des Airbornes. The cemetery is on your right after the church.
2,567 Burials
1,945 British Army (+ 39 unknown), 268 Heer (German Army) + 54 unknown,
85 Royal Marines (+ 1 unknown), 67 Canadian Army, 47 unknown Commonwealth soldiers,
16 Royal Air Force, 16 Royal Canadian Air Force, 5 Royal Navy (+ 8 unknown),
5 French Army, 3 Royal New Zealand Air Force, 2 Luftwaffe (German Air Force),
2 Merchant Navy unknown, 2 Royal Australian Air Force, 1 Belgian Army, 1 Polish Army,
A total of 151 burials are unidentified.
The Australians, Belgian and French are buried in Plot V.
The Pole, an engineer and Colonel in the 1st Polish Armoured Division, is buried in Plot IVA. E. 9.
The New Zelanders are buried in Plots, VA, V and IX.
The German forces fatal casualties are buried in Plots VI and VII.
Of those buried in Ranville War Cemetery, 70 (all Allied) are buried in 6 collective graves:
II. F. 21 (4 identified), III. D.10 (3 unknown), IV. C. 22-27 (6 identified), V. B. 1-22 (22 identified),
VA. D. 3-8 (6 identified), VA. H. 5-8 (1 identified and 3 unknown) VIA. C. 1-25 (25 identified).
18 casualties (all Allied) are buried in joint graves:
V. D. 4 . (2 identified), V. D. 5. (2 identified), V. F. 7 & 8 (2 identified), VIII. A. 20 & 21 (2 identified),
VIII. D. 18 (2 identified), VIII. D. 23 (2 identified), VIII. F. 5 (2 identified), IX. E. 17 (2 unknown).
2 casualties (both Allied) buried in this cemetery have Special Memorials to mark their grave:
Special Memorial Type 'A' (British Army), bearing the inscription 'Known to be buried in this cemetery.
Private CLIFFORD MELBOURNE OXTOBY, Special Memorial Type 'C' (Canadian Army), bearing the inscription 'Buried near this spot'.
Honours and Awards
1 Air Force Cross, 1 Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar, 1 Distinguished Service Order,
1 Distinguished Service Order and Bar, 2 Distinguished Conduct Medals,
3 British Empire Medals, 3 Territorial (Efficiency) Decorations,
4 Officers of the Order of the British Empire, 4 Distinguished Flying Crosses,
13 Mentioned in Despatches, 11 Military Crosses, 19 Military Medals.
Cemetery and Casualty Information
Ranville War Cemetery is the third largest Second World War Commonwealth War Cemetery in Normandy, France. Designed by Architect Philip D. Hepworth it was built, and is still maintained by, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (formerly the Imperial War Graves Commission). Ranville has been referred to as the airborne cemetery, since the majority of the British 6th Airborne Division fatal casualties (655) now rest here.
Some 82 regiments and corps from the British Army are represented in this cemetery, 203 men were killed on D-Day, Tuesday 6th June 1944. All identified casualties in this cemetery (with the exception of 11 German forces casualties) were killed, or died, between May and September 1944.
Casualties range from 16 to 49 years of age. Among those buried in this cemetery are 1 pair of British Brothers, Corporal CYRIL ALBERT JAMES ECKERT (VIA. B. 13) and STANLEY GEORGE THOMAS ECKERT (VIA. B. 23) and 1 pair of Canadian Borthers, JOSEPH MAURICE ROUSSEAU (V. A .G7) and JOSEPH PILIPPE ROUSSEAU (VA. G. 8).
More casualties also lost other family members in conflict: 1 had a father who had been killed in the First World War. 16 lost another brother, 1 who lost a twin brother and 1 lost 2 brothers elsewhere in the Second World War.
7 men who rest in this cemetery served under an alias:
Private MURRAY ADAMS-ACTON served as Private MURRAY ACTON.
Lance Corporal HANS ARENSTEIN served as Lance Corporal HARRY ANDREWS.
Private FREDERICK FLIESCHER served as Privater FREDERICK FLETCHER.
Serjeant EUGEN KAGERER-STEIN served as Serjeant EUGENE FULLER.
Lance Corporal KURT MEYER served as Lance Corporal PETER MOODY.
Private ERNST NATHAN served as Private ERNEST NORTON.
Private BERNARD TAYLOR served as Private BERNARD TUCHMANN.
An Alsatian paradog called GLEN, also rests in this cemetery, he rests with his 19 year old keeper Private EMILE SERVAIS CORTEIL (IA. G. 13).
Details in and around the North Platte River.
Taken on a trip to the Miracle Mile in Wyoming on the last weekend in March of 08 with a few of my pals. The fishing was no good because of the weather but it created ideal conditions for me.
So this place is somewhere my family has been taking me forever. My grandparents have a little Airstream trailer that sits up at the river year round. Propane heat, oven and stove. Roughing it, with a little comfort mixed in.
Conditions can be pretty rough, both in summer and winter.....and in March! It's a long way out on dirt roads that see VERY little activity. If you break down it could be a day before you see anyone. On this trip we were reminded of just how vulnerable we as humans are to nature.
On Sunday, the day we planned to leave, we awoke to a little snow on the ground and pretty cold temperatures. It really wasn't sticking to the ground though. The boys weren't afraid and they tried their luck at the fishing again that morning. After a few hours they called it quits and we started to pack up and clean the trailer. My buddy really wanted to try and land a fish in the tough conditions so he went down to the river to try one last time before we headed home.
I joined him, to try and take a few photos of him fishing in the snow. As soon as we got to the river the snow picked up a little. Then a lot. He had barely gotten himself into the freezing cold water before he turned around and looked at me like, "Holy $%@#, we should probably get out of here!"
And we did. We locked up the trailer and hit the road.
Now my buddies were in a 4 wheel drive Jeep and I was in a front wheel drive Altima. No chains. We drove in on dry roads and we were leaving in blizzard conditions. There are a few different roads leading out of the Mile and I had to choose which one to take. One road takes you up and over a pass but once you get over the pass the roads are paved and it's the shortest route. The other way is pretty flat but it's out on the plains and many times the road drifts over and it's hard to see where the road is. Sometimes the drifts are 10 feet tall and then you're screwed, for lack of a better term. So I thought we'd try our luck at the pass. Yeah, not so much. The first major hill and my car started spinning about three quarters of the way up. Luckily we hadn't gone down that road long before we realized it was not an option.
We turned around, or rather my car did a donut and turned me around and we headed the other way. I've driven in white out conditions before but nothing prepared me for the journey I, and my trusty friends, would take. Just like I suspected the road was full of drifts and with the blizzard conditions visibility was next to nothing. For two and a half hours I followed a few little bushes sticking out of the road hoping that I was on the right path. Honestly it was hard to see if I was on the road or out in the prairie. White as white could be.
We made it off of the dirt roads and to a little town called Hanna. Now if you've ever been to Wyoming you know that outside of a few of the "major" cities, EVERYTHING closes down at 6pm on a Sunday. We rolled into town about 5:55. Just enough time for me to get a pack of smokes at the grocery store and trust me I needed them. The folks at the store told us EVERY road out of Hanna was closed. Hanna has NO motels. None. I was pretty sure I was sleeping in my car that night cuddled up to my furry dog.
At this point we needed gas too. I always fill my tank before I head out on the dirt roads because I know what can happen. No real gas stations in Hanna but they do have a few pumps that take a credit card. That works, if only the pumps worked. No luck.
So we decided to drive a few more miles to Interstate 80 because we figured that was our best option. Luckily the highway ramp wasn't closed and we decided to press our luck and try and get to Laramie which was about 70 miles away. Laramie was the only gas or lodging available. I had less than a quarter tank.
Actually I-80 was the best driving conditions we saw but that really isn't saying much. Visibility was a little better though. We made it to Laramie, and gas, and we were again told that all roads out of Laramie were closed. Hundred of semis, cars and trucks sat at on-ramps around Laramie. We decided to call Wyoming Dep't of Transportation to see if Highway 287 was open. They said yes but probably not for long. We made it out of Laramie and got past the gates before they closed them. I'm not sure if that was a good thing or not, looking back.
By now it was dark, very cold, and the wind was blowing like crazy. My buddy took the lead because he had the 4 wheel drive and better headlights. The snow was whipping around and making it really hard to see. We had to drive a little ways, find a road marker, drive a little more till we spotted the next. Most cars in the other lane were stopped with their hazard lights on. We kept on trucking. Up and over the pass we went. We drove through piles of drifted snow. The wind howled like I've never seen it before. At one point it literally moved my car about 4 feet. Slid it right along the frozen ground. All of a sudden I was in the oncoming lane, or what I thing was the oncoming lane. Scary stuff.
So we finally made it back to Fort Collins. The wicked conditions didn't let up until we reached the city limits. A trip that usually takes three and half hours took almost seven!
Seven hours of hunching over the steering wheel to see out of the windshield. Seven hours of gripping that steering wheel like it was a piece of rope and I was dangling over the edge. :)
I'm glad I had a few friends that didn't panic and knew what they were doing. I've never been so glad to be home from a trip.
Thanks for reading my story.
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The Creating Balance exhibition opened today at Pitfield Pop-Up in Winchester.
The project has been over a year in the making and is the celebration of a collaboration between Anglepoise, The University of Portsmouth and Strong Island a community group from Portsmouth.
The strength and breadth of talent in Portsmouth has been showcased at the exhibition.
During the last year 10 artists and designers were twinned with 10 photographers and each given an Anglepoise lamp.
Final outcomes are on display along with 10 videos all made by students Massimo Mazullo and Jonas Jakunas on the BSc TV & Broadcasting course at The University of Portsmouth.
We launched the exhibition as part of The London Design Festival back in September and were also picked to be part of the Icon Design Trail and speak at the V&A gallery in London.
Everyone involved in the project has been overwhelmed by the support and reaction to the exhibition so far. Some lamps have been customised - artist My Dog Sighs used his lamp as a palette, design studio I Love Dust illustrated theirs, Paul Gonella and Tristan Savage submerged a lamp in the solent for 4 months and Russell Squires turned his lamp into an Anglebot.
Pitfield, Winchester is the perfect place to exhibit due to their incredible curation of the space. Pitfield Pop-Up by Pitfield of London (owned by Sean Clarkson an interior designer who appears on Channel 4;s Four Rooms) is a mixture of shop, cafe and gallery.
You can view the exhibition until 7th December, open Monday to Saturday 7.30am - 5.30pm and Sunday 10am - 4pm. Pitfield Pop-Up Winchester is located in the centre of the city right by the cathedral at The Brooks, Winchester. It will then open at aspex gallery, Portsmouth on 10th January 2014 until 16th February.
Feel free to grab a copy of the brochure and postcard pack when you visit.
See the website for further details - www.creatingbalanceproject.co.uk
Our Maker Art class created a Haunted House in fall 2016. In this after-school workshop at the Lycée Français, students ages 7 to 10 built a fantasy world together, with magical creatures, ghosts, witches and other spooky characters.
We combined arts and technology to bring their creations to life: each student created their own room in our haunted house, and animated their characters with motors and simple mechanisms, adding lights and sounds to tell their stories.
Students started by designing their rooms and characters, and built them in their own cardboard ‘wonderboxes.’ We then asked them to sketch up their individual visions of the Haunted House and combined them together. Children worked in teams to build some of the more complex features: a clock tower, an elevator and an animated graveyard zombie, all powered with Arduino boards.
I’m very grateful to my associate teachers for this class: Sarah Brewer and Edward Janne were amazing partners and empowered our students to create their own interactive art, helping them bring their ideas to life in a playful way that made learning more fun.
We taught this class weekly at the Lycée Français in Sausalito, with 8 school students in grades 3, 4 and 5. We met every Thursday at 3:30pm, from September 15 to December 8, 2016. Many of the materials we used in this class were prepared at Tam Makers, our makerspace in Mill Valley.
Learn more about our Haunted House class:
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Created from an artwork by the late Hong Kong Artist Ah Chung (1933-2018).
To learn more of the artist or purchase a Giclee print of the artwork, please visit www.ahchung.com.hk
I read an interesting post by Chase Jarvis about creativity. He asked the community at large to finish the sentence "I'd be more creative if ....". I also watched the movie Perfume last night, in which one character asked to be left alone - he needed silence to learn how to create.
For me, silence is the best mechanism. Not silence in terms of sound, but the silence of the mind which in turns, creates a loud heart. One which yells with passion, creating an inspiring space because it's doing what it needs.
It's important to apply silence to our loud lives.
On the off-chance that people still leave comments on my photos - what do you think? Finish the sentence "I'd be more creative if...."
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Artisans from China adhere silk to steel with a special adhesive glue designed for lantern-making. A piece from The First Emperor's Quest for Immortality lantern set can be seen on the right.
Photo by Sonia Lalla, courtesy the Missouri Botanical Garden.
"Lantern Festival: Art by Day, Magic by Night" opens May 26-Aug. 19, 2012 at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Learn more at www.mobot.org/lanternfestival.
This widdle guy is my visually impaired explorer. He likes the kitchen because he can explore with his nose instead of his eyes. Hedeki likes to play in flour bowls and he uses spoons as his walking sticks. The only issue is keeping him OUT of the sugar container....Sugar doesn't eve have smell!!!!
Any who, Hedeki loves his open space in the kitchen and likes the feel of the warm sun light of a good evening sunset. He does this thing where he stares out the window longingly.....can he see?
Hessa Bint Eisa Buhumaid, Minister of Community Development of the United Arab Emirates capture during the Session "Creating Inclusive Communities" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in Dalian, People's Republic of China, July 3, 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
Vestal, NY. May 2024.
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Milica Zec, Director, Film and Mixed Reality, New Reality Co., USA; Cultural Leader speaking during the Session: “Creating Visions of Another World“ at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 24, 2018. Congress Centre – Aspen 2.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher