The Bayeux War Cemetery is one of the largest of 18 military cemeteries in Normandy, with more than 4,000 graves – many of which mark the plots of soldiers who were never identified. These ...

THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the viewpoint in Port-en-Bessin, the site of a daring raid following D-Day.

From medieval tapestries to a 1,000-year city party, Ilfracombe’s twinning trip offers a taste of true French life ...

at the Bayeux War Cemetery, where more than 4,000 British soldiers are buried; it’s a fitting place to end my journey through their story. WALKING Normandy’s D-Day beaches with Inntravel ...

Somewhere around 9,000 soldiers are buried in this Colleville-sur-Mer war cemetery ... of the main train station in Bayeux. From the train station, the cemetery is best reached by car.

Students from Arnewood School delivered recitals of Perhaps (1916) by Vera Brittain and At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux by Charles Causley. The service concluded with prayers from senior ...

The event at the New Milton War Memorial commemorated the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe. The town council and Royal British Legion's New Milton branch organised the event on Thursday, May 8.

Aged 99, D-Day veteran Ken Cooke has outlived almost every comrade but refuses to be called a hero. To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, he has returned to France to tell his story in the hope the ...

Every time he returns to Normandy, he visits the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Bayeux and another at Ranville. He said: “If cemeteries could be called beautiful, then they are beautiful.

Hermanville War Cemetery, near Sword Beach ... "There is a row of graves in Bayeux where there is 12 Green Howards (Ken's regiment) all in a row and I have stood there and I have cried because ...