In pictures: 80th anniversary of D-Day
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PA D-Day veteran Sergeant Richard Brock sits next to some of the 4,600 lit headstones during the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Great Vigil to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day at the Bayeux War Cemetery in Normandy, France.PA
Sergeant Richard Brock was among the veterans attending events in Normandy
Events to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day are taking place in France and the UK on Thursday.
Commemorations began on Wednesday, which saw the King make his biggest speech since his cancer diagnosis - addressing a crowd in Portsmouth on the eve of the anniversary.
He paid tribute to the troops from the UK, the US, Canada, France and other places.
Britain's wartime prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill, called it "the most complicated and difficult" operation of World War Two, leading to the eventual liberation of France from Nazi occupation.
