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.
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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) Photo: -
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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) Photo: -
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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) Photo: -
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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) Photo: -