Where you can pay your respects in Rotherham on D-Day anniversary tomorrow

The Maltby Branch of The Royal British Legion has organised the short service and wreath laying at 2pm on Thursday to mark 75 years to the day from the historic landings in France.

It will take place at the memorial gardens in High Street.

Veterans and Legion supporters are also invited to a pie and pea supper at 7.30pm on Saturday, June 15, at the village’s Edward Dunn Memorial Hall.

In Bramley, members of the community and children from Bramley Sunnyside Junior School council will gather for a wreath laying ceremony at 11am.

There will be readings by the children followed by Last Post.

The Legion will also be commemorating the occasion at Rotherham Cemetery in East Herringthorpe at 11am, with a wreath-laying and the playing of the Last Post.

They have also asked for small crosses to be sponsored to be placed by the Normandy campaign memorial in the cemetery.

Each cross will cost £10 to sponsor and will display the name, rank, service number, regiment and date of death of those who served.  

On the rear of the cross will be the name of the individual sponsor. 

Money raised from the sponsorship will be used to pay for crosses needed to assemble a large memorial feature on Remembrance Day at Clifton Park.

Last year, over 1,100 crosses were placed in the memorial garden at Clifton Park commemorating Rotherham’s First World War fallen and the plan this year is to give special attention to those who died in the Second World War.

The display will again feature an individual cross with the name, rank, service number, regiment and date of death of each of the Rotherham servicemen and women listed on the Clifton park war memorial.