Commemorations to mark the 82nd anniversary of D-Day in Normandy have started, with French schoolchildren walking across Juno Beach to mark H-Hour, the time at which British servicemen were deployed.Serving military personnel, the grandson of British Commander Field Marshal Montgomery and pipers from the Jedburgh Pipe Band marched with the schoolchildren on Saturday morning.Nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed on June 6 1944 to fight Nazi-occupied France.

Commemorations to mark the 82nd anniversary of D-Day in Normandy have started, with French schoolchildren walking across Juno Beach to mark H-Hour, the time at which British servicemen were deployed.Serving military personnel, the grandson of British Commander Field Marshal Montgomery and pipers from the Jedburgh Pipe Band marched with the schoolchildren on Saturday morning.Nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed on June 6 1944 to fight Nazi-occupied France.