‘This is the last and only opportunity for me. It is because of the lads. I want to pay my respects’
As the sun rose over Gold Beach in Arromanches on 6 June, a lone military piper played from a landing craft to herald the milestone anniversary.
His lament rang out just before 7.30am local time, the exact time of the D-Day invasion, and he was joined as he came on shore by dozens of military personnel re-enacting the landings.
A couple of hours later, the King and Queen, who had stayed in France overnight, arrived in Ver-sur-Mer to attend a commemoration at the new British Normandy Memorial, which overlooks the vast stretch of
