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D-Day: Parades and beacons in Wales to mark 80th anniversary

First Minister Vaughan Gething – who was unable to attend his planned D-Day engagements in Portsmouth on Wednesday due to facing a confidence vote in the Senedd – laid a wreath at the memorial for the south Wales borderers in Asnelles, Normandy on Thursday.

In Swansea, Blind Veterans UK organised a ceremony at the Grand Hotel for veterans from across south Wales.

Cyril “Jim” Lewis, 104, fought in north Africa and Italy and said it was exceptionally important anniversaries like this were marked, because a lot of people did not return from the war.

“Some think that it should be stopped, remembrance, but they’re wrong, because a lot of young boys went over there,” he said.

“It’s difficult to tell people about it, because they don’t understand.”


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