<br />In pictures: 80th anniversary of D-Day<br />5 hours ago<br /><br />Share<br />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<br />Sergeant Richard Brock was among the veterans attending events in Normandy<br />Events to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day are taking place in France and the UK on Thursday.<br />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.<br />He paid tribute to the troops from the UK, the US, Canada, France and other places.<br />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.
