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Robert White

D-Day veterans mark anniversary to ‘remember our friends who never came home’

D-Day veteran and ambassador for the British Normandy Memorial, Ken Hay, 99, at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, France (Gareth Fuller/PA) - (PA Wire)

A chaplain whose grandfather fought in the Second World War commemorated the 81st anniversary of D-Day by warning “we forget it at our peril”.

The Rev Simon d’Albertanson, a Royal Navy chaplain and the chaplain for the Spirit of Normandy Trust, led a memorial service at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, describing D-Day as a “seminal moment in history”.

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