D-day roll call

Tom Schaffer, 91, right, a paratrooper during the battle of the Ardennes, throws a wreath from the crosschannel ferry Normandie as veterans travelled to Caen to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the D-day landings on June 6. The journey to the battlegrounds of Normandy will be the last large-scale trip organised by the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, as the number of soldiers from the conflict who are able to travel declines. A group of veterans, above, pose in the garden of a house in northern France where they experienced heavy fighting after D-day in 1944.