Dear all, 

We are looking forward to hosting this year's Ipshita Memorial Charity BBQ in memory of our beautiful daughter and sister, who we lost 9 years ago.

We were incredibly moved by the D-Day 75^th Anniversary memorial services. It may surprise you that there is no memorial to commemorate the historic sacrifice
of the heroes of the British Normandy campaign. The Americans have a memorial
at Omaha and the Canadians have a memorial on Juno. 

It is for this reason, that we have chosen the “Normandy Memorial Trust” to raise funds for this year. www.normandymemorialtrust.org

On June 6^th 1944, soldiers from all over the world came to fight on the beaches of Normandy to defeat tyranny. Allied soldiers came together from Great Britain, United States, Canada, France, Australia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway and New Zealand.  It remains the largest seabourne invasion in history with 156, 000 soldiers and 195, 700 naval personnel. It laid the foundations for the Allied Victory on the western front and, ultimately, the Second World War. 

After all that that they have done for us, it seems that at the very least, the surviving veterans deserve is to see a memorial, within their lifetimes, for all the British servicemen and women and those from civilian services who lost their lives in the D-Day landings and the Normandy campaign.

With your help, we hope to make this most humble wish of our precious veterans come true…