The Normandy Landings in 1944 was planned from 1943, Hugh Trefusis Brassey took part in the landing after he  joined in the Royal Scots Greys as second lieutenant.
Planning for the operation began in 1943. The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. He joined in the Royal Scots Greys as second lieutenant in 1935 During the Second World War, he was involved in the Syria-Lebanon Campaign in 1941 and the Battle of El Alamein in the following year. He took part in the Salerno Landings of 1943 and also in the Normandy Landings of 1944. 
