Veterans have gathered at Westminster Abbey to mark 65 years since the Normandy landings.
The Prime Minister and Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth were among those who attended the Normandy Veterans Association’s evensong service to remember the operation.
The landings in June 1944 saw British, American and Canadian forces land at five points along the Normandy coast to begin the liberation of France.
Reverend Michael Macey, Minor Canon of Westminster, told the congregation:
“Here we are united with those who have gone before us.”
At the end of the service, Gordon Brown, the Duke of Gloucester – who is patron of the Normandy Veterans Association – and the president and chairman of the association stood at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior as the Last Post sounded.