Watch as the sun rises over Normandy beaches on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Royal family members and world leaders gathered with veterans in the northern French region to mark the ...

Aged 101 Cecil Newton, from Aldbourne, in Wiltshire, who served in the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, died peacefully in his ...

Heroic D-Day veterans gathered on Normandy's Omaha Beach to commemorate the 80th anniversary ... as they remembered fallen friends and paid tribute to the tens of thousands who lost their lives ...

On June 8, 1944, two days after D-Day, graves registration personnel recovered a set of remains from Omaha Beach that they were unable to identify, the DPAA said. The remains were interred at U.S ...

As a result the troops landing on the D Day beaches had a series of objectives and one of them, the most ambitious of those was for the British landing at sword beach. Lying 7 miles inland and ...