17-Dec-2025
In Pictures: 2025 Highlights
MARCH: Standing with Giants silhouettes arrive at the Memorial ready to be installed for a second year.
APRIL: completed installation of 22,442 giants within the Memorial’s wildflower meadows.
APRIL: The Winston Churchill Centre reopens featuring the famous poster design by Abram Games.
MAY: D-Day Veteran Ken Cooke becomes Memorial Ambassador alongside Stan Ford, Ken Hay MBE and Mervyn Kersh.
MAY: A series of bespoke Giants are installed near the Winston Churchill Centre to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
MAY: Memorial Ambassador and Normandy Veteran Stan Ford celebrated his 100th birthday with family and friends.
MAY: Pupils at St John’s Catholic Comprehensive School in Kent trial the new virtual reality headsets for Operation Remembrance to launch at the Winston Churchill Centre in 2026.
JUNE: The official commemorative ceremony to mark the 81st anniversary of D-Day takes place, in the presence of Veterans, John Healey MP, Ambassador Menna Rawlings, Chairman Lord Richard Dannatt and French dignitaries.
JUNE: Memorial Ambassador and Normandy Veteran Ken Hay MBE meets with French school children at the 81st anniversary events.
JUNE: Paul Harris, fundraiser and grandson of fallen serviceman George Hanks, completes 22,442 miles of a fundraising cycle challenge.
JUNE: Normandy Veterans in front of the D-Day Sculpture with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s VE Day torch.
AUGUST: Ken Hay MBE turns 100 on 3rd August.
SEPTEMBER: Giants are dismantled at the Memorial
NOVEMBER: The annual Remembrance service takes place at the Memorial organised jointly by the Royal British Legion Normandy Branch and the Normandy Memorial Trust.
NOVEMBER: Drone shot of the Memorial on a bright autumnal day.
DECEMBER: Ken Hay meets Winston Churchill’s great grandson, Alexander Churchill, as he interviews Ken and other Veterans on behalf of the Trust. Alexander is the Trust’s first Youth Ambassador.
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