D-day anniversary: emotional swansong for UK veterans of Normandy
A D-day anniversary: emotional swansong for UK veterans of Normandy UK veterans group will never again walk in their hundreds through the white rows of headstones of Bayeux war cemetery Many leaned heavily on sticks. Others were helped by younger service personnel providing an obliging arm to lean on. But many more walked unaided behind the Normandy veterans' standards to loud applause. "Proud" was how Peter Davies, 91, from Herefordshire, one of around 100 to march, described the final farewell to Normandy and D-day on the seafront at Arromanches. "Marching was very emotional". Davies drove on to Sword beach in a Sherman tank on D-day. "It brings it...