4th Infantry Division Memorial
Details:
Inside the park. The precise location is unknown.
The memorial consists of a tapering rough-hewn stone monument engraved with an inscription and a rectangular stone plaque set onto the ground that is also engraved with an inscription. The memorial was given by the Division’s Veterans’ Association and the dedication ceremony took place on June 6, 2011. It was sponsored by the Tiverton Town Council and Mid Devon District Council with the permission of the People’s Park and Recreation Ground Trust Committee.
The 4th Infantry Division had its headquarters in Tiverton and units were scattered across the Westcountry from Braunton to Plymouth and the South Hams. They departed from ports and slipways across the region for the Normandy and Utah Beach landings in the early hours of June 6, 1944, known as D-Day. In total, 73,000 troops from America landed on Utah Beach, and 34,250 on Omaha Beach, plus 15,000 airborne troops.
In the British and Canadian sectors, 83,115 troops were landed. Altogether, 6,939 ships and landing craft were used, 2,395 aircraft and 867 gliders delivered airborne troops.
Source of information: Imperial War Museum War Memorials Register, www.devonlive.com
Source of images: Imperial War Museum War Memorials Register, www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk
Monument Text:
On the stele:
IN MEMORY
OF OUR
COMRADES-IN-ARMS
D-DAY
JUNE 6 1944
DEDICATED
BY THE
ARIZONA CHAPTER
4IDA
JUNE 6, 2011
On the plaque:
THESE TREES WERE PLANTED
ON 3RD JUNE 1999
AS A LIVING MEMORIAL
TO THE 4TH INFANTRY DIVISION
U. S. A.
