Members of the Barnoldswick and District Royal British Legion delivered an emotional tribute on live TV on the 80th anniversary of D Day.

Barnoldswick and District Royal British Legion youth member Marcus Lilley supported Sgt Richard Brock as he was delivering a speech to the fallen at the British War Cemetery in Bayeux, France, on Wednesday.

Marcus was also accompanied on the trip by his father and branch chairman Captain Adrian Lilley.

Bayeux War Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission war cemetery of the Second World War in France.

It contains the graves of those originally buried on the battlefields and those who died in military hospitals in Bayeux.

Marcus Lilley with Sgt Richard Brock on the live broadcast

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The cemetery was started during the war by the 48th Graves Concentration Unit - a unit of the British Army responsible for recovering, identifying and burying the dead.

It is the final resting place of more than 4,100 Commonwealth servicemen, of whom nearly 340 remain unidentified.

Captain Lilley also attended the Beacon Lighting in Earby.

Barnoldswick & District Royal British Legion will also host an 80th Anniversary D-Day Evening at St Joseph’s Community Centre, Barnoldswick, on Saturday, June 8, from 7pm.

There will be music by the Earby Brass Band, singing by Paul ‘Peaky’ Shelby and a pie and pea supper. 

People can dress 1940s attire but this is optional. A number of raffle prizes from HiQ Skipton, Hope Technology, and Thornton Hall Farm will be on offer.

Tickets cost £10 and are available from Callum or Barlic Bites Barnoldswick, or the Humble Pie in Earby.