D-Day veteran passes commemorative torch to pupils to mark 80th anniversary
George Horner, 97, who served with the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Ulster Rifles, landed on Sword Beach in Normandy on June 6, 1944.
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George Horner, 97, who served with the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Ulster Rifles, landed on Sword Beach in Normandy on June 6, 1944.
Young royal engineer says it is important to remember the D-Day landings as 80th anniversary approaches.
The few surviving Second World War heroes feel it’s their duty to make sure people remember their sacrifices. The Royal British Legion is taking 23 D-Day veterans back to Normandy to visit the graves of fellow heroes
The farmhouse was a critical and strategic part of the Allied invasion and commandeered by Major John Howard after the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry captured Pegasus Bridge at 12.16am on June 6, 1944, in one of the first acts of D-Day.
Normandy lionhearts will lead Royal British Legion commemorations in France as they muster to remember their fallen brothers in arms for the 80th anniversary of D-Day on June 6