Memorial · Lestrem · Updated on 1 November 2026.

Memorial to 97 members of the Royal Norfolk Regment massacred at Le Paradis in Lestrem

Memorial to 97 members of the Royal Norfolk Regment massacred at Le Paradis is a memorial in Lestrem, Pas-de-Calais. This place has a story in the app.

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You're standing in Le Paradis, a hamlet near Lestrem in northern France. It's quiet and rural here, all fields and farms. Yet on 27 May 1940 this was the scene of one of the best-known war crimes against British soldiers in the Second World War.

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Memorial to 97 members of the Royal Norfolk Regment massacred at Le Paradis in Lestrem

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