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79th Anniversary of D-Day in Stockport and Normandy
Commemoration of 79th Anniversary of D Day Landings at Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery. The service started Standards and Escorts from Stockport Sea Cadets. Family members and friends of our Stockport Veterans talked for 2 minutes (with a photograph of Veteran)...
Launch Of Video: History Remembered
eVoices of yesterday History Remembered - through the stories of life on the Home Front during World War 2 The memories of schoolchildren who lived through the years from 1939 – 1945 have been recorded for everyone to understand how it felt during this difficult...
VJ Day 2020 Commemoration
Members of Stockport Normandy Veterans and Friends met via Zoom to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of VJ Day and to reflect on the meaning of Victory for those serving in WW2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0TTUthnYko
D-Day 6th June 2020
Our members paid private tribute to the 76th Anniversary of D-Day in lock down here in the UK.
VE Day – 8th May 2020
As individual members we tried to commemorate the day. Banners and flags were flown, but it wasn’t the same as the celebrations we had been intending to have. We had schools to visit and were intending to wear WW2-style outfits – with our WW2 generation members as...
Stockport NVA Legacy Film 2019 Launched
New Video: Alfred Barlow remembers his landing on Sword Beach 6th June
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmPRZrFB884
Normandy Invasion Timeline Launched
We've added a timeline of the Normandy Invasion to the site This is our second in the series of Timelines - this one touching more specifically on the Normandy Invasion and some of our veteran's involvement Please click here to see the timeline:...
Key Facts of WW2 Timeline Launched
We've launched a new page with a timeline of key facts of WW2 Click here to see the Key Facts Timeline Page: https://stockportveterans.com/for-schools/key-facts-of-ww2-1939-1945/
Remembrance Day Service 2018
We attended the 100th Please click here to see a video of the service