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Woolacombe Memorial

Photograph at the Woolacombe Memorial war memorial

This memorial is dedicated to those thousands of soldiers whose preparations on the sands of Woolacombe and Saunton in the months preceding D-Day carried them to glorious victory on the sands of Normandy.

Inscription drawn from imported open data, awaiting original TributeLegacy editorial.

Source: OpenStreetMap. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

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Data sources

Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.

  • Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
  • Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
  • Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.

Editorial descriptions, photography and tribute links are original TributeLegacy work, layered on top of the open data.

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