PREVIEW

Pictured: Leader of the Labour Party Keir Starmer speaks to veterans at the British Normandy Memorial, Ver-sur-Mer, UK’s major commemorative event in Normandy to mark the 80th Anniversary of D-Day.

The Ministry of Defence and the Royal British Legion host the UK’s major commemorative event at the new British Normandy Memorial at Ver-sur-Mer, with thanks to the Normandy Memorial Trust.

This anniversary will mark the first time the British Normandy Memorial has been at the heart of major anniversary commemorations, having been opened in 2021.

It contains the names of the 22,442 servicemen and women under British command who fell on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy in the summer of 1944.