8th Nov 2024

Honouring service and sacrifice: Remembrance Day 2024

This Remembrance Day, we reflect on the contributions of our team members with military backgrounds, celebrating the resilience, leadership, and values they bring to our company.

Honouring the service and sacrifice of our military veterans

Remembrance Day is a time to honour those who have served and sacrificed. For team members with military backgrounds, it’s a day of deep reflection and pride. Their stories remind us of the strength and resilience they bring to our work every day, and the meaning this day holds for them is something we all feel. Through their experiences, we gain a unique perspective on how values forged in service continue to shape our workplace and inspire us all.

  • Mulberry Harbours, 1944

    A military engineering project of unprecedented size and complexity, Mulberry Harbours is perhaps our most important contribution to the war effort. We played a significant role in the construction of the temporary harbours which supported the D-Day landings in Normandy.

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