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Four kayakers to re-enact D-Day reconnaissance mission
BBC News· 7 days agoThe kayakers are joining a team of 18 former and serving Royal Marines who are paddling across the...
Dewsbury: Rugby coach to climb highest peak with tumble dryer
BBC News· 13 hours agoA rugby league coach is set to scale one of the UK's tallest mountains with a tumble dryer strapped to his back. Tommy Dunford, 33, will climb Yr Wyddfa, also known as Snowdon, with the 66lb ...
Amphibious WW2 'Duck' Vehicle Reenacts Normandy Landing on D-Day Anniversary
MarineLink· 2 days agoThe son of a World War Two soldier, British lawyer and vehicle historian Nigel Stoate, 55, steered...
French town renames street to honour British D-Day troops
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoTo generous applause from British military and local French alike, he declared the street was now...
Letters: The Prime Minister’s D-Day blunder has damaged his election prospects even further
Daily Telegraph· 2 days agoMy late father, like Lesley Mayo’s (Letters, June 6), was serving in the Royal Marines at the time...
Military piper begins commemorations in Normandy on 80th anniversary of D-Day
Press Association News via AOL· 3 days agoReform UK leader Nigel Farage was spotted coming down to Gold Beach ahead of the tribute. Down the...
'UK is on a knife edge', warns D-Day veteran
BBC News· 3 days agoA D-Day veteran has said he feels the UK is "on a knife edge" and "unprepared" for another war. Former Royal Marine Les Budding served on board a landing...
D-Day 80th anniversary: Veterans fight back tears in Auld Lang Syne singalong
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIt was only after the 15 D-Day veterans had made it safely on to a square overlooking the shores of...
D-Day: 80th anniversary marked around Yorkshire
BBC via Yahoo News· 3 days ago“It is with great gratitude that they gave up their lives for the freedom we have today,” she said. Attendee Gary Bentley, 64, an ex-serviceman in the ...
D-Day veterans pay respects on ‘last opportunity’ to honour the dead
Daily Telegraph· 3 days agoAt Asnelles at 8.45am, the Royal Marines of 47 Commando performed a beach landing, wading through...
