A chaplain whose grandfather fought in the Second World War commemorated the 81st anniversary of D-Day by warning "we forget it at our peril".The Rev Simon d'Albertanson, a Royal Navy chaplain and the chaplain for the Spirit of Normandy Trust, led a memorial service at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, describing D-Day as a "seminal moment in history".He reminded veterans, officials and members of the public that the legacy of D-Day was vitally important given the conflict and "troub

A chaplain whose grandfather fought in the Second World War commemorated the 81st anniversary of D-Day by warning "we forget it at our peril".The Rev Simon d'Albertanson, a Royal Navy chaplain and the chaplain for the Spirit of Normandy Trust, led a memorial service at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, describing D-Day as a "seminal moment in history".He reminded veterans, officials and members of the public that the legacy of D-Day was vitally important given the conflict and "troubled times that we live in".The Normandy landings took place on June 6 1944, when Allied forces opened a Second Front by invading Nazi-occupied France.