Gold Beach Running, Firing Rifleman, 69th Infantry Brigade of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division--single figure
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Gold Beach Running, Firing Rifleman, 69th Infantry Brigade of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division
Despite being under enemy fire, this soldier takes careful aim as he moves forward.
KING & COUNTRY’S ‘GOLD BEACH’ COLLECTION
When Nicholas Witchell and myself met up in Hong Kong, Nick told me how much he liked our own British D.Day ‘Tommies’; however, he also noticed that all their regimental shoulder titles and divisional patches were of troops that landed on ‘SWORD’ Beach on June 6, 1944. He asked whether we could produce a small selection representing some of those soldiers who landed on ‘GOLD’ Beach where the Memorial is located.
I happily agreed with this suggestion and began my own research into finding a suitable regiment and division to ‘miniaturise’.
Fortunately, for all of us, we chose men from the 69th Infantry Brigade of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division. Not only that but the Infantry regiment we decided on was the 6th Battalion of ‘The Green Howards’, in whose ranks was the only Victoria Cross winner of the entire D.Day Operation: Company Sgt. Major Stanley Hollis of that same regiment.
And so, without further ado, here are our special D.Day ‘Tommies’ in action on ‘GOLD’ Beach itself, courtesy of and with the support of The British Normandy Memorial.
THE BRITISH NORMANDY MEMORIAL’
The British Normandy Memorial was officially opened on 6 June 2021 by His Majesty The King (then Prince of Wales) as Royal Patron of the Normandy Memorial Trust.
The Memorial itself records the names of the 22,442 servicemen and women under British command who fell on D.Day and during the ongoing Battle of Normandy in the summer of 1944.
Located on a hillside overlooking ‘GOLD BEACH’, the Memorial also includes the ‘Winston Churchill Centre’, where visitors can find more information and special momentoes that help fund the ongoing upkeep of this very unique location.
In 2025, King & Country was approached by a senior member of the Normandy Memorial Trust who was visiting Hong Kong to see whether we could supply their Winston Churchill Centre with suitable D.Day figures and fighting vehicles.
Fortunately for all concerned, we were delighted to provide British infantry and armoured corps soldiers and vehicles for the centre.
At the same time, we are currently working on producing an original rendition of the Memorial’s own larger-than-life size statues of three advancing British infantrymen in our own 1:30 scale.
In addition, we are also assembling a selection of our most popular British D.Day Infantry in the unit markings of the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division, one of the two British Divisions to land on Normandy on D.Day, 6 June 1944.
As part of our support for the Memorial, they also requested that we reissue our own figure of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as he appeared in Normandy in the summer of 1944.
Due to be released in JUNE 2026.
