UK: Brixton unveils a memorial to honour African and Caribbean soldiers

By Fayola Douglas From London Live UK

6th June 2018 marked the 74th anniversary of the D-Day landings, the largest seaborne invasion in history.

On the 6th of June 1944 – the British Army crossed the channel, with Allied support, to launch a major operation on Nazi occupied Europe.

A commemoration took place earlier at Brixton’s Black Cultural Archives – to recognise the role that African and Carribbean soldiers played.

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