Location
Within the shop area of the D-Day Museum on Clarence Esplanade,
Southsea.
Description
Two metal plaques placed one above the other.
Memorial (Plaque 2)
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ADMIRAL SIR BERTRAM H.RAMSAY
K.C.B.,K.B.E.
(1883-1945)
NAVAL COMMANDER DUNKIRK MAY 1940
ALLIED NAVAL COMMANDER D DAY 6th JUNE 1944
NORMANDY VETERANS ASSOCIATION
SOUTHERN PORTSMOUTH
BRANCH
Inscription 2
23rd August 2001
Major General Peter L de C Martin CBE
President of the Normandy Veterans Association
and blessed by the Chaplain to the Branch
the Reverend B. Messum in the presence of
Admiral Sir DEsmond Cassidi GCB. President of the
Southern (Portsmout) Branch of the Association.
Committee members : Chairman H.E.G. Wallace
Vice Chairman R. Parsonage. Secretary F. Rosier
Assist. Secretary T. Wright. Treasurer A. Colgan
Standard Bearer H Marrington. C. Pratt
Museum and Records Officer Mrs. S. Quail
Further information:
The Allied naval command had been established for planning purposes on 5 May 1943. On 25 October Admiral Little was replaced as Commander-in-Chief Allied Naval Expeditionary Force (ANCXF) by Admiral Sir Bertram H. Ramsay. It was not until 1 April, however, that Admiral Ramsay assumed operational control of U.S. naval forces and even then his command remained formal until the eve of the invasion. The principal duty of ANCXF in January was still the preparation of an Allied
naval plan.
Admiral Ramsay had in 1940 commanded the sea-borne forces at Dunkirk. See the memorial to this in the Portsmouth Cathedral. In 1945 Admiral Ramsay and four of his staff were killed when a plane they were on crashed on take-off.
