SECOND World War veterans gathered together yesterday to pay their respects to the thousands who died during D-Day.
The 63rd anniversary of the allied landings was marked with a moving service outside Worcester Cathedral.
Addressing the small crowd stood around the cenotaph, John Hewlett, chairman of the Worcester branch of the Royal British Legion, said: "I am here to remember fallen friends.
"They would have wanted us to be here today, to remember."
After laying a poppy wreath, prayers were said by chaplain-in-chief to the Royal Air Force the Ven Ron Hesketh. Mr Hewlett recited a verse of Laurence Binyon's famous poem For The Fallen and Roy Runicles played The Last Post.
About a dozen members of the public stopped to listen to the service. D-Day - codename Operation Overlord - took place on June 6 1944. It was the day the Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy. Thousands died during the Battle of Normandy: 29,000 Americans, 11,000 British, 5,000 Canadians, 23,000 Germans and 12,200 French civilians.
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