05-Nov-2024

Remembrance 2024: The year in pictures

A look back at the 80th anniversary year in pictures – from the building of the Winston Churchill Centre for Education and Learning to Veteran focussed events and the official commemorations.

January 2024: Lord Richard Dannatt, Chair of Trustees and Dame Cressida Hogg, CEO of BAE Systems meet ahead of the construction of the Winston Churchill Centre (Credit: BAE Systems)

 

January 2024: Lord Richard Dannatt, Chair of Trustees and Dame Cressida Hogg, CEO of BAE Systems meet ahead of the construction of the Winston Churchill Centre (Credit: BAE Systems)

 

March 2024: Memorial Ambassador Stan Ford and former Group Captain Claire O’Grady meet at the Giants’ workshop in Oxfordshire

 

April 2024: Normandy Veterans gather for a media day at London’s Union Jack Club (Credit: Jane Franklin / BFBS News)

 

April 2024: The Giants’ journey to Normandy via Blenheim Palace (Credit: Pete Seaward)

 

April 2024: First look of completed Standing with Giants installation (Credit: Gareth Fuller / PA Wire)

 

April 2024: BBC Breakfast reveals the completed Giants installation for the first time

 

 

April 2024: Memorial Ambassador Mervyn Kersh is the first Veteran to see the completed Giants installation (Credit: Gareth Fuller / PA Wire)

 

 

May 2024: Memorial Ambassador Ken Hay MBE meets the Duke of Gloucester at Cavalry and Guards Club

 

April 2024: RAF Veteran Gilbert Clarke, one of the 9 Veterans attending a special event at the Calvary and Guards Club

 

 

May 2024: Memorial Ambassador Ken Hay shares his wartime stories with primary school children in Romford, London (Credit: Gareth Fuller / PA Wire)

 

6 June 2024: Sunrise on the 80th anniversary (Credit: Florence Marsac)

 

6 June 2024: The King speaks at the official D-Day 80 ceremony (Credit: Gareth Fuller / PA Wire)

 

June 2024: Completed Winston Churchill Centre for Education and Learning (Credit: Gareth Fuller / PA Wire)

 

 

6 June 2024: Ken Hay reads the Exhortation at the Memorial (Credit: Gareth Fuller / PA Wire)

 

6 June 2024: Katherine Jenkins performs at ‘D-Day 80: Remembering the Normandy Landings’ at the Royal Albert Hall

 

 

6 June 2024: The late D-Day Veteran Percy Chafer meets the Duchess of Gloucester at the Royal Albert Hall

 

September 2024: Saying goodbye to the Giants

 

September 2024:  Randolph Churchill, the great grandson of Winston Churchill and Second World War veteran Colin Bell visit the Memorial for the first time

 

October 2024: Cranwell Military Wives Choir performed by the D-Day Wall