At the foot of a long list of names inscribed on the newly unveiled British Normandy Memorial, one is set in its own category. Chiselled into the limestone, the epitaph reads: WAR CORRESPONDENT FYFE I H. AGE 25.
Ian Fyfe was a Daily Mirror reporter who volunteered to travel across the Channel in a glider to cover the Normandy landings. But the glider crashed in swamps near its planned landing spot near the Nazis’ strategic Merville Gun Battery, and Ian became the only journalist to die on D-Day.
Standing next to the memorial is his 67-year-old nephew, also named Ian Fyfe in honour of his courageous uncle.
