The remembered

Reflections on the ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day

The British Normandy Memorial, October 2023 © Leigh Stanford

The cartoonist Kenneth Bird, who used the pen-name Fougasse, is mostly remembered now for the propaganda work that he undertook for various government departments during World War II. The best known were on the theme ‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’: the elegance and wit of his penmanship made a ser…