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Headline: Princess Anne Leads Guests At Moving D-Day 80 Commemoration At Bayeux War Cemetery

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Pictured: Commonwealth War Graves with soldiers in silhouette at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Vigil.

CWGC Bayeux War Cemetery. The Royal British Legion held a service of commemoration attended by around 1,000 people, including D-Day veterans, descendants of those who fought, veterans’ relatives and members of the public. Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth cemetery of the Second World War in France. It contains 4,144 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 338 of them unidentified.

Keywords: Army,Tri-Service,Ceremonial Event,Occasion,D-Day 80,D Day 80,War Cemetery,Bayeux,Bayeux War Cemetery,Vigil,commonwealth War Graves Commission,Commonwealth War Graves Commission Vigil

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