D-Day 80 – Grangues
On 7th June we remembered the 54 airmen who died near Grangues. Some were killed in the crash, others were taken prisoner and shot. The villagers still remember them with great admiration and love eighty years later. I sang “The Rose” and led the anthems.
D-Day 80 – Bayeux Cathedral
On 5th June I joined the Band of the Royal Yorkshire Regiment, Hereford Cathedral Choir, and four pipe bands to provide music for a service of remembrance in Bayeux Cathedral in the presence of veterans and HRH The Princess Royal.
D-Day 80 – the Canadian Cemetery at Beny-sur-Mer
D-Day 80 – Veterans’ Parade in Arromanches

With Alec Penstone: Credit: Paul Grover for The Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph
D-Day 80 – Bayeux War Cemetery
D-Day 80 – Ox and Bucks
On 5th June I sang at the Glider Stones next to the original Pegasus Bridge, the memorial to the Ox and Bucks regiment who landed in the early hours of 6th June 1944. This was in the presence of the family of Major John Howard, who led the gliders that landed in Normandy just after midnight on 6th June. The men secured Pegasus Bridge, thus allowing the troops arriving on the beaches to move in land.