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. Little ship. Commemorative D-Day event at Stokes Bay highlighting the part that the borough of Gosport played in 1944. Picture: Chris Moorhouse (010619-28) Photo: -
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D-Day event at Stokes Bay, Gosport. Waving to the little ships. Commemorative D-Day event at Stokes Bay highlighting the part that the borough of Gosport played in 1944. Picture: Chris Moorhouse (010619-26) Photo: -
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D-Day event at Stokes Bay, Gosport. Waving to the little ships. Commemorative D-Day event at Stokes Bay highlighting the part that the borough of Gosport played in 1944. Picture: Chris Moorhouse (010619-23) Photo: -
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D-Day event at Stokes Bay, Gosport. MTB. Commemorative D-Day event at Stokes Bay highlighting the part that the borough of Gosport played in 1944. Picture: Chris Moorhouse (010619-27) Photo: -