July 2022 - First proper New Forest walk for a while. Lovely weather and extremely peaceful. The Canadian Memorial is a simple wooden roadside cross overlooking sloping ground, close to the Bolderwood Deer Sanctuary - it is beside the minor road leading from Emery Down, not far from the A31 underpass. The Canadian Memorial recalls World War Two Canadian forces present in the New Forest before the D-Day invasion of June 6th, 1944 - the first day of landings at the start of the Allied invasion of Normandy, a momentous assault on German-occupied France.