For the first time this Roll of Honour brings together the list of Allied landing craft crewmen who were killed on D-Day and during the remainder of the 1944 Normandy Campaign. Many are already listed on various commemorative organisations and websites, but they are often not identified as landing craft crew or associated with a specific craft. This means that the circumstances of their service and death can be easily overlooked. This Roll of Honour (or Roll of Honor, for US readers!) is based on the research for my book “D-Day Landing Craft” and aims to place all this information in one place for easy reference.
Above: Bayeux War Cemetery, one of many locations where landing craft crew are buried or commemorated. (Photo: author)
The personnel on the list belonged to a variety of services: primarily the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, Royal Canadian Navy, United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, but also a few individuals from other Allied navies.
Click here to find out more about how this Roll of Honour for Allied Landing Craft crew at Normandy was created. You can also read about the various columns displayed, and the sources used to create it.
A minority of those who should be in the Roll of Honour are unidentified: can you help confirm their names?
By default the records are in date order, then within each day in order by surname and Christian name. Click on one of the column titles and you can re-sort the data according to any of the columns. The search box is at the top right side of the table. Click the drop-down list to the right of the search box and you can search only within a single column rather than across all columns. In the “CasualtyInfoSummary” column, click on the black triangle (if present) to show the full text. As there are multiple columns, this page may be best viewed on desktop. There is a scroll bar at the bottom of the table.
Date of most recent data update: 29 June 2024.
Additional names added.
I am having a problem with displaying the field explaining the details surrounding each individual’s service and death, so unfortunately am not able to show that at present.