A military piper has begun commemorations for the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy by playing a lament ... to mark the occasion on Thursday. At Gold Beach in Arromanches, Major Trevor Macey ...

to the British Normandy Museum. The figures overlook Gold Beach, one of the key landing points. They were transported via Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire and Fort Nelson, near Fareham in Hampshire.

On Gold Beach, by contrast, casualty rates were around 80% lower. Troops of the US 7th Corps wading ashore on Utah Beach The fighting during the Battle of Normandy, which followed D-Day ...

Gold Beach is the story of the highly successful assault by 50th Northumbrian Division and 231 Malta Bde on the central beach of the Allied D day landings The beach was one of the 2 extra beaches ...

Later, President Emmanuel Macron, President Donald Trump and PM Theresa May will attend events along the 80km stretch of Normandy coast ... soldier landed on Gold Beach. Later, French President ...