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Every Banner Tells A Story

March 2005

They say that every picture tells a story and this is also the case when it comes to Orange banners.

The banner in question is that of Newtownards Ex-Servicemen's Orange Lodge. This Lodge was formed after the Second World War of men who had served in various ways.

The old banner of the Lodge highlights this, as it portrays the Normandy Landings on June 6, 1944. At that time 200,000 soldiers were landed on the coast of France with the aim of pushing the German armies back.

The landing cost a lot of Allied lives, and the film Saving Private Ryan gave some sense of the terrible conditions which awaited soldiers as they landed on the beaches.

Among the men who took part in the D Day Landings were the solders of the Royal Ulster Rifles, who landed both by sea and by air, in gliders. They fought hard and well in helping to regain territory occupied for too long by the Nazis.

The success of the Normandy Landings helped bring about victory in Europe.

The old banner of the Lodge (pictured)gives some sense of the scenes that took place on that 6th of June.

Behind the banner there were, of course, many stories of individual soldiers. This year is the 60th anniversary of the ending of the war, and many of those stories are set to be retold as the nation looks back to brave men who helped deliver freedom ......

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