“It’s emotional, it always is.” Ken, speaking to The Press before setting off, said the trip is primarily to attend a ...

A World War Two veteran who served aboard HMS Fratton during the Normandy campaign and suffered serious injuries has ...

Ruth Bourne worked a top-secret job at Bletchley Park during World War Two - but joined the jubilant scenes on VE Day.

After joining the Merchant Navy at the start of World War Two, Tony Cash says he thought it would all be over "in a couple of ...

THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the ...

Ken, speaking to The Press before setting off, said the trip is primarily to attend a remembrance service at the British Normandy Memorial. The engagement does, however, mean that Ken cannot make ...

After scanning just some of the 22,442 names chiselled into the British Normandy Memorial, I walk down to the expanse of Gold Beach where British troops fought. The path snakes alongside the ...

A group of D-Day veterans are setting sail to Normandy from Poole next month as part of the day’s 81st anniversary commemorations. Henry Rice, Jim Grant, Stan Ford, Ken Hay, John Dennet and ...

This year around 30 bravehearts are hoping to return, possibly for the very last time, to participate at a service at the British Normandy Memorial overlooking Gold Beach in Ver-sur-Mer which ...