YORK's last surviving D-Day veteran was among those who attended a service of remembrance on Sunday, June 7 to mark 82-years since the Normandy landings of the Second World War.
Ken Cooke, 100, laid a wreath at Derwent Valley Light Railway in Murton Lane near Grimston Bar and read from two poems - For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon, and also from The Veteran.
York Normandy Veterans Association organiser Nick Beilby said: "The Last Post and Reveille were played perfectly by Emily Hope of St Lawrence Church and we observed a minute's silence.
"The wreath was laid on War Department locomotive number 37 Ken Smith, to the memory of Ken Cooke's comrades in the 7th Battalion Green Howards and his late, great friends in the York Normandy Veterans.
"It was a moving and poignant ceremony and we are indebted to the Derwent Valley Light Railway for their unfailing support of the York Normandy Veterans."
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