Bring Churchill to Normandy

Help us complete the British Normandy Memorial with a statue of Britain’s wartime leader

The Normandy Memorial Trust invites those who cherish the memory of Sir Winston Churchill to help it to create ‘Churchill – The D-Day Statue’, a twice life-sized bronze statue of Churchill created by acclaimed artist and sculptor Paul Rafferty with the setting by multi-award winning Memorial architect Liam O’Connor.

‘Churchill – The D-Day Statue’ is a tribute to one of the most important figures of our age, a man to whom we owe so very much. I hope you may feel moved to support it.” - Lord Nicholas Soames

A lasting legacy of remembrance and education

‘Churchill – the D-Day Statue’ will depict the great war leader saluting the 22,442 men and women whose names are engraved on the walls and pillars of the British Normandy Memorial, of which this sculpture will be a significant new feature.

Positioned in ‘Churchill Court’, Churchill will appear in the clothing he wore when he visited the Normandy beaches six days after D-Day, on 12 June 1944, setting in context his defining role in the planning and execution of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy that followed.

There could be no more appropriate figure with which to complete the construction of the British Normandy Memorial than Winston Churchill. The statue will be a further striking reminder to educate the generations of the future of the courage and resilience which ensured victory in the Second World War. It will also link the Memorial to the Winston Churchill Centre for Education and Learning on the memorial campus, where the focus on education is an ever more important priority.

https://www.britishnormandymemorial.org/winston-churchill-centre/education-experience/