The liberation of Europe was a momentous task consuming the energies of millions of people. The thousands of troops who went ...

THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the viewpoint in Port-en-Bessin, the site of a daring raid following D-Day.

Cecil Newton, from the village of Aldbourne in Wiltshire, was in the thick of it as the allied forces stormed the beaches at ...

One of the last survivors of the assault on the D-Day beaches in 1944 has died, his family has said. Aged 101 Cecil Newton, ...