D-Day survivors remember fallen comrades 72 years on

Early on the morning of 6 June 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified Normandy coast, taking the Germans by surprise.

Yesterday a handful of the survivors, proudly wearing their battle honours, veterans’ association blazers and berets sat in the hazy sunshine in The Parade to honour the memory of the men who never made it ashore and those who died in the following weeks until Caen was captured two months to the day after D-Day.

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