Displays to commemorate D-Day in Northamptonshire libraries
Organisers are keen to hear from people
The 80th anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings and Operation Overlord on the Normandy coast falls on 6th June 2024. To mark the occasion Northampton Museums and Art Gallery are creating exhibitions in libraries at Brackley, Daventry, Towcester and Weston Favell.
Each library will host exhibition cabinets filled with Northamptonshire stories, objects and memories of D-Day and its immediate aftermath.
The project wants to connect with local people and their family stories of D-Day, so organisers are keen to hear from the public.
Jane Seddon of Northampton Museum and Art Gallery explained to us more about the local involvement back in 1944:
"The Northamptonshire Yeomanry fought in Normandy. Also the airfields of the county played a significant part in the D-Day story. The Jedburgh teams were dropping people behind the lines who were supporting resistance groups and mounting sabotage attacks.
"For the exhibitions we've taken all this content and stories from people serving as well as those at home too. There'll be all sorts on show from medals to hatbands, and home front objects from our collections in the museum.
"We've had community groups knitting poppies for the anniversary and we'll have those on show at Abington Park Museum. We've tried to a poppy for everyone we know about who was a casualty at D-Day."