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 Stokes Bay, Gosport. Watching the little ships. Commemorative D-Day event at Stokes Bay highlighting the part that the borough of Gosport played in 1944. Picture: Chris Moorhouse (010619-33) Photo: -
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D-Day event at Stokes Bay, Gosport. Landing craft. Commemorative D-Day event at Stokes Bay highlighting the part that the borough of Gosport played in 1944. Picture: Chris Moorhouse (010619-31) Photo: Chris Moorhouse
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D-Day event at Stokes Bay, Gosport. Machine gunner. Commemorative D-Day event at Stokes Bay highlighting the part that the borough of Gosport played in 1944. Picture: Chris Moorhouse (010619-30) Photo: Chris Moorhouse
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D-Day event at Stokes Bay, Gosport. From left, Katja Shaugnessy, Pam Eastwood and Mike Roberts, all in period costumes. Commemorative D-Day event at Stokes Bay highlighting the part that the borough of Gosport played in 1944. Picture: Chris Moorhouse (010619-32) Photo: -