D-Day anniversary: A day of emotional tributes to fallen heroes marks the anniversary of ‘The Longest Day’
By Picture Desk
Published 6th Jun 2019, 17:38 GMT
The courage and sacrifice of those who gave their lives in the heroic D-Day landings 75 years ago has been honoured in moving ceremonies on both sides of the Channel
D-Day on June 6 1944 was the largest amphibious invasion in history, and ultimately led to the liberation of Europe from Nazi occupation.
Normandy veteran Leonard Cox takes a seat as veterans start to gather in Arromanches, France, ahead of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
The Duchess of Cornwall meets veterans during the Royal British Legion's Service of Remembrance, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Arthur Edwards/The Sun/PA Wire
Veterans start to gather in Arromanches, France ahead of the commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall listen to veteran Frank Baugh (left), who served as a signalman with the Royal Navy on a landing craft during D-Day during the Royal British Legion's Service of Remembrance, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Steve Parsons/PA Wire
A veteran looks at graves at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in Bayeaux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire
A convoy of military re-enactors in vehicles gather on the road to Arromanches, France, during commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire
Two Chinooks above a field of poppies close to the British Normandy Memorial site in Ver-sur-Mer, France, on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire
The Prince of Wales lays a wreath at the Royal British Legion's Service of Remembrance, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Steve Parsons/PA Wire
Army vehicles head to head into Arromanches in Normandy, France, on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire
A Dakota and a Spitfire make a fly past over the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Jane Barlow/PA Wire
Army vehicles and re-enactors stop to and look at field of poppies close to the British Normandy Memorial site in Ver-sur-Mer, France, on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire
Army vehicles and re-enactors stop to and look at field of poppies close to the British Normandy Memorial site in Ver-sur-Mer, France, on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire
The Prince of Wales meets veterans at the Royal British Legion's Service of Remembrance, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Chris Jackson/PA Wire
Medals worn by the Prince of Wales at the Royal British Legion's Service of Remembrance, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Chris Jackson/PA Wire
The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall looking at graves during the Royal British Legion's Service of Remembrance, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Chris Jackson/PA Wire
The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall looking at graves during the Royal British Legion's Service of Remembrance, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Chris Jackson/PA Wire
The Prince of Wales arrives at the Royal British Legion's Service of Remembrance, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Chris Jackson/PA Wire
Prime Minister Theresa May lays a wreath at the Royal British Legion's Service of Remembrance, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Chris Jackson/PA Wire
Members of the Gurkka's at the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, in Staffordshire, for a service to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay Arboretum. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire
A soldier at the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, in Staffordshire, for a service to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay Arboretum. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire
A veteran gives a salute amongst the headstones at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Jane Barlow/PA Wire
Allen Gullis (centre) with wife Edna (right) and great granddaughter Hallie Ayliffe (left) at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemtery in Bayeaux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire
A man poses for a photograph with Robert Howard 94, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemtery in Bayeaux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire
The message left by Prime Minister Theresa May at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemtery in Bayeaux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire
Melvyn Dunn, 77, from Ackworth, West Yorkshire, salutes in a field of poppies after he laid a wreath at the British Normandy Memorial site in Ver-sur-Mer, in northern France, in remembrance of his father, Walter, who joined 1919 and fought in the Second World War. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire
Melvyn Dunn, 77, from Ackworth, West Yorkshire, carries the wreath he laid at the British Normandy Memorial site in Ver-sur-Mer, in northern France, in remembrance of his father, Walter, who joined 1919 and fought in the Second World War. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire
A female veteran wipes a tear at the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, in Staffordshire, for a service to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay Arboretum. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire
A veteran looks at wreaths at Bayeaux Cathedral to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemtery in Bayeaux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire
Veteran Fredrick Adamson, 99, from Doncaster with his grandson Philip Knight, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Jane Barlow/PA Wire
Veteran Fredrick Adamson, aged 99 from Doncaster, next to the grave of a friend he fought alongside at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Jane Barlow/PA Wire
Simeon Mayu, a veteran from the Royal Navy Patrol Service, showcases his medals at the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, in Staffordshire, for a service to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay Arboretum. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire
A veteran salutes as he attends the Royal British Legion's Service of Remembrance, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Steve Parsons/PA Wire
D-Day veteran Vincent Horton, 93, from Stoke-On-Trent, lays a wreath at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Jane Barlow/PA Wire
D-Day veterans Nev Lees (left) and Bob Jones from Blind Veterans UK during a photocall on board HMS Belfast in London, to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire
D-Day veterans (left to right) Arthur Barnes, John Connelly, Nev Lees and Bob Jones from Blind Veterans UK during a photocall on board HMS Belfast in London, to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire
97-year-old World War Two veteran Jimmy Ockendon lays a wreath at the D-Day stone in Southsea during a memorial service on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire
Veterans gather at the D-Day stone in Southsea during a memorial service on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire
Members of the Royal British Legion gather on the seafront near to the D-Day stone in Southsea before a memorial service on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire
General view of the D-Day stone in Southsea before a memorial service on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire
97-year-old World War Two veteran Jimmy Ockendon (third left) steps forward to lay a wreath at the D-Day stone in Southsea during a memorial service on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire
A D-Day veteran wipes his eyes during the Royal British Legion's Service of Remembrance, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Steve Parsons/PA Wire
The Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, Prime Minister Theresa May and Philip May attend the Royal British Legion's Service of Remembrance, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Steve Parsons/PA Wire
Veteran Frank Baugh, 95, who served as a signalman with the Royal Navy on a landing craft during D-Day, attends the Royal British Legion's Service of Remembrance, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Steve Parsons/PA Wire
The Duke of Sussex (centre) during Founder's Day celebrations at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in west London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. The Prince will review the Chelsea Pensioners at the annual Founder's Day Parade in which six Normandy veterans will be taking part. The event celebrates the founding of the Royal Hospital by King Charles II, See PA story MEMORIAL DDay Sussex. Photo credit should read: Aaron Chown/PA Wire
The Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and Prime Minister Theresa May attend the Royal British Legion's Service of Remembrance, at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, in Bayeux, France, as part of commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday June 6, 2019. See PA story MEMORIAL DDay. Photo credit should read: Steve Parsons/PA Wire
