A number of the Darlington Branch Members, of the Royal British Legion, joined a coach tour of the D-Day Beaches and Normandy Landings (16th to 19th May 2025)

Day One - Ferry to Calais 16.05.2025

        Day Two - Early start 17.05.2025

Pegasus Bridge and Pegasus Memorial Museum

Replacement Pegasus Bridge - Opened 1994 (Is in same position as the original Pegasus Bridge)

   Original Pegasus Bridge within the museum grounds

  Ranville Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery

Sword Beach 

Juno Beach                         

Gold Beach and Mulberry Harbour at Arromanches

    Then (06.06.1944)

Now (17.05.2025)

The British Normandy Memorial

Day Three - Omaha Beach 18.05.2025

 Overlord Museum

  Normandy American Cemetery

Cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach (Shows one of the routes used by American Forces to get off Omaha Beach)        

Sainte-Mère-Èglise (Where American Paratroopers landed during the night of 5th to 6th June 1944)

Sainte-Mère-Èglise Airborne Museum

Fiere Bridge & American Iron Man Memorial

Utah Beach

German Cemetery at La Cambe

Bayeux Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery

 Day Four - Trip home to Darlington via La Shuttle