Normandy Veterans Association memorial - geograph

The Normandy Veterans' Association (NVA) was an association formed in 1981 of ex-servicemen and women who served in the 1944

Normandy invasion Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 (D-Day) with the Norma ...

. The association was represented at the 70th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy in June 2014. Due to dwindling numbers the association decided to disband in November 2014. The last official engagement of the association took place at

St Margaret's, Westminster The Church of St Margaret, Westminster Abbey, is in the grounds of Westminster Abbey on Parliament Square, London, England. It is dedicated to Margaret of Antioch, and forms part of a single World Heritage Site with the Palace of Westminster a ...

(

Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United ...

) on 16 October 2014. The National Standard of the NVA was 'laid up' at Westminster Abbey with a plaque that reads:

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D-day anniversary: Britain's Normandy veterans gather for last time
- the Guardian, 6 June 2014 Military personnel of World War II British veterans' organisations 1981 establishments in the United Kingdom

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