A memorial honouring soldiers who died under British command on D-Day - and in the fighting that followed - has been unveiled in France on the 77th anniversary of the Normandy landings.
The British Normandy Memorial records the names of the 22,442 people who were killed on D-Day and at the Battle of Normandy. It cost £30m and was designed by British architect Liam O'Connor. Due to Covid restrictions, veterans watched the unveiling via video link. Only a small number of people were able to attend the event in the Normandy town of Ver-sur-Mer, where the memorial is situated.
The RAF's Red Arrows and the French Air Force's Patrouille de France aerobatic teams then flew overhead to mark the opening of the memorial. It remembers those who died in the largest seaborne invasion in history, as about 160,000 troops from Britain, the US, Canada, France, and other Allied nations landed in Normandy.
