Events to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day have begun in Normandy with a lone piper in Port Winston marking the minute the invasion began.

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D-Day 75th anniversaryRe-enactors dressed in military uniform on the beach at Arromanches in Normandy, northern France (Gareth Fuller/PA)
D-Day 75th anniversaryThe first soldiers landed at the beach on the morning of June 6 (Gareth Fuller/PA)
D-Day 75th anniversaryCrosses of remembrance placed alongside a Union flag stand at dawn on the beach at Arromanches in Normandy (Gareth Fuller/PA)
D-Day 75th anniversaryRe-enactors dressed in military uniform carry a Union flag at dawn (Gareth Fuller/PA)
D-Day 75th anniversaryA lone piper plays on the Mulberry harbour at Arromanches to mark the exact moment the first British soldier landed on Gold beach 75 years ago (Gareth Fuller/PA)
D-Day 75th anniversaryRe-enactors on the beach at Arromanches (Gareth Fuller/PA)
D-Day 75th anniversaryLen Perry, 95, from London, holds a D-Day 75 wreath while sailing on the MV Boudicca from Portsmouth to Normandy (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)
Military vehicles line the beach at Arromanches Military vehicles line the beach at Arromanches (Gareth Fuller/PA)
A memorial placed by the Mulberry harbour at Arromanches A memorial placed by the Mulberry harbour at Arromanches (Gareth Fuller/PA)
Prime Minister <a href=Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron arrive for the commemorations">Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron arrive for the commemorations (Owen Humphreys/PA)