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Artist's impression of the new steel memorial to the tank crew killed at Berjou

War poet Rupert Brooke wrote: "If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field, That is for ever England. There shall be, In that rich earth a richer dust concealed." This 1915 poem, The Soldier, reflects a historic discovery made by James Holland in northern France last year.

The historian unearthed the remains of a Second World War British Sherman tank in a Normandy hedgerow where five crewmen, along with four other soldiers from C Squadron of the Nottingham-based Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, lost their lives in summer 1944 in an armoured vehicle full of fuel and ammunition.

The indented hedgerow marks the spot where a landmark memorial is being unveiled this mon

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