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Prince Charles witnessed the Parachute Regiment recreate the landing of Allied paratroopers in Ranville.

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Thousands of veterans travelled across the Channel in boats from Portsmouth Harbour.

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WWII veterans aboard the ferry Van Gogh watched the Battle of Britain flight led by Flight Lieutenant Jack Hawkins

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Brigadier James Hill - the last surviving officer of brigadier rank of the Normandy campaign - sees a statue unveiled in his honour in Le Mesnil.

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Memories of battlefields and of lost friends overcame some veterans attending the remembrance services.

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But the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings had its lighter moments.

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Old pals from the Parachute Regiment met again on the beaches at Arromanches.

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Ex-Royal Signalman William Young, from Glasgow, danced a jig for a French piper at Caen where veterans were awarded Normandy 60th anniversary badges.

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Prince Charles sits with veteran pilot Jim Wallwork inside a replica of one of the giant gliders used in the daring raid on Pegasus Bridge 60 years ago.

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Cyril Ager, 79, a Royal Engineer in the war talks to four-year-old Michael Sheehan from Maidenhead, as they watch the Army's 17 Port and Maritime Regiment ramps boats dock.

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And a former Sapper got to know soldiers from 17 Port and Maritime Regiment Royal Logistics Corp as they rehearsed for Sunday's Arromanches ceremony.

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Vic Hayman, 79, from Nottingham, who served as a sergeant in the Royal Signals signed a French gendarme's book about the invasion, codenamed Operation Overlord.

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French schoolchildren from Magneville in Normandy laid flowers at a memorial in their village to soldiers of the American 101st Airborne Division who were shot down on D-Day.