D-Day 75: Best pictures as Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and Stokes Bay kicked off our D-Day commemorations
By Deborah Croker
Published 3rd Jun 2019, 11:30 GMT
Updated 3rd Jun 2019, 17:04 GMT
There was plenty of things to see and do as the D-Day anniversary events began at the weekend.
A special ceremony was held at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard on Sunday for the group of veterans sailing across the Channel to Normandy for D-Day 75. The event came as part of the dockyard’s wider D-Day commemorations, held over the course of the weekend. Stokes Bay also commemorated D-Day at the weekend with an array of World War Two displays, events and activities. The D-Day 75 Embarkation event was organised by Gosport Council and the D-Day Fellowship.
D-Day event at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. (l to r), Kitty White, Peggy Rose and Nel Narker...The Cha Cha Cha's. Picture: Ian Hargreaves (010619-1)
D-Day event at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The Royal Marines band. Picture: Ian Hargreaves (010619-3)
D-Day event at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Picture: Ian Hargreaves (010619-4)
D-Day event at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Picture: Ian Hargreaves (010619-5)
D-Day event at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. (l to r), Ted Walker (seven), from Portsmouth with re-enactor Stephen Allnutt. Picture: Ian Hargreaves (010619-6)
D-Day event at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. (l to r), Wartme re-enactor Colin Taylor with visitor Sally Storey from Portsmouth. Picture: Ian Hargreaves (010619-8)
D-Day event at Stokes Bay, Gosport. Oliver Simmonds, 3, poses by a Hawker Hurricane for his father's photograph. Commemorative D-Day event at Stokes Bay highlighting the part that the borough of Gosport played in 1944. Picture: Chris Moorhouse (010619-40)
D-Day event at Stokes Bay, Gosport. Soldiers' camp. Commemorative D-Day event at Stokes Bay highlighting the part that the borough of Gosport played in 1944. Picture: Chris Moorhouse (010619-39)
D-Day event at Stokes Bay, Gosport. John Bunch admires a Hawker Hurricane. Commemorative D-Day event at Stokes Bay highlighting the part that the borough of Gosport played in 1944. Picture: Chris Moorhouse (010619-38)
D-Day event at Stokes Bay, Gosport. Caroline Porter and her son, Artie, 10. Commemorative D-Day event at Stokes Bay highlighting the part that the borough of Gosport played in 1944. Picture: Chris Moorhouse (010619-37)
D-Day event at Stokes Bay, Gosport. Ian Taylor, left, and Aaron Davies, both from the Tommy Atkinson Society. Commemorative D-Day event at Stokes Bay highlighting the part that the borough of Gosport played in 1944. Picture: Chris Moorhouse (010619-36)
