East Sutherland Rescue Association to join in D-Day national commemoration on June 6

East Sutherland Rescue Association (ESRA) is taking part in a national "Lamp Light of Peace" commemoration to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings and is inviting other local organisations to join in.

Beacons will be lit throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man on June 6 at 9.15pm. Groups unable to light a beacon are being invited to light a lamp.

ESRA spokesman Antony Hope said an event will be held at the Cadogan Lifeboat Station at Dornoch Beach car park, which will include the lighting of a a beacon and a service of remembrance. Church bells will ring at 6.30pm that evening.

He said: "A meeting will be held at the lifeboat station on Monday March 18 at 9pm for any organisations wishing to be involved."

The World War II D-Day invasion was the largest naval, air and land operation in history. The Allies used over 5,000 ships and landing craft to land more than 150,000 troops on five beaches in Normandy on June 6, 1944.

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