Asnelles is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.
View of the beach
The Town Hall
Panoramic view of Asnelles
The Lavoir (Public laundry)
Brigadier Sir Alexander Beville Gibbons Stanier, 2nd Baronet of Peplow Hall, was a British Army officer who fought in the First and Second World Wars, particularly distinguished for his actions at Boulogne in 1940, on D-Day in 1944, and in the Rhineland in 1944.
Alexander Stanier
Memorial to Brigadier Stanier at Arromanches.
General Sir Bernard Montgomery with the U.S. First Army commander, Lieutenant General Omar Bradley (centre), and Stanier at Montgomery's HQ in Normandy. Stanier had just received the Silver Star from Bradley.