A plaque unveiled at Gold Beach in Normandy to remember Surrey's D-Day veterans is a "wonderful honour", the family of one of the late soldiers say. The blue plaque reading "Surrey Square – the ...

A plaque unveiled at Gold Beach in Normandy to remember Surrey's D-Day veterans is a "wonderful honour", the family of one of the late soldiers say. The blue plaque reading "Surrey Square – the ...

Councillor Steve Pitt, leader of Portsmouth City Council, said: ... 'D-Day veterans plaque is a wonderful honour' 6 Jun 2025. Surrey. Troops 'echo history' with exercise on D-Day beach.

Royal Navy war heroes will be remembered in Portsmouth 100 years on from when the Portsmouth Naval Memorial was first unveiled. British and Commonwealth sailors who lost their lives in the First ...

Emma Stratton, executive director of Portsmouth Historical Society, spoke about the Portsmouth Plaque Program, as it prepares for its first event “How to Research Your Historic Property ...

PORTSMOUTH — Portsmouth homeowners are being invited to apply for a historic plaque to place on their homes to identify a prominent owner and the date the house was built. Emma Stratton ...

Campaigners are continuing their fight to save Eastney Swimming Pool and install a memorial to the Cockleshell Heroes.

The first soldier who was killed in combat on D-Day, 80 years ago, was a 28-year-old former weights and measures inspector, his daughter, who was born just days after he was killed, has recalled.

A series of commemorative events are planned for the days leading up to the anniversary. On Monday, D-Day veterans will meet local schoolchildren at an event in Portsmouth – the nerve centre of ...

A plaque marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day has been unveiled at the station where young American soldiers boarded trains on their way to the horrors of Omaha Beach in Normandy.

DAY ONE. Take a cabin on the overnight Brittany Ferries crossing from Portsmouth to Caen. That way, you arrive at dawn near the spot where so many British troops came ashore on D-Day - Sword Beach.

Portsmouth Mayor Deaglan McEachern and Jonathan Day, junior vice commander of VFW Post 168, toss flowers into the Piscataqua River as part of the Burial at Sea ceremony Friday, May 24, 2024.