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On the 6th June 2024 we remembered the fallen in the D-Day 80 Year commemorations taking place in Ver-Sur-Mer, Normandy, France. The world was in memorial of this auspicious day for the fight for #Freedom. Those who gallantly gave their lives. Those who were fathers, fathers to be, those who did not get the opportunity to become fathers if they so wished; creed, colour, age - the loss indiscriminate. We will remember them.?

#WoCiPBCH WoCiPBCH Women of Colour in Policing are honoured to share that one of our Young WoCiP Influencers #YWI #EllisseA played a part, by invitation, as a member of London Youth Choirs #LYC on this world-wide platform, broadcasted on TV and Radio to an audience of millions. We are immensely proud of her contribution, indeed all of those involved.

Known for her work with #WociPBCH, singing at varying events and supporting the work with the #YWI, Ellisse is a valued member and known for singing our anthem 'Stand Up' by Cynthia Erivo song of courage and determination. She has also sang with the RAF in 2022 at the Bright Lights Awards Ceremony to add to her musical repertoire.

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Behind the scenes leading to the D-Day 80 proceedings was crucial to the day; a ‘call to duty’ if you will; the military-type precision, secret location embargoed Communications, official documentation and passes - the tightest of security; confidential rehearsals (some amidst serious exam revision!) took place in preparation for the BBC’s highly moving ‘We Will Remember Them’ D-Day 80 Year programme. Setting sale for their feat the journey began at Portsmouth Port.

LYC were determined to be and do their utmost best in honour and humility to those who remain and the memorial to those who sleep including their families. The journey across the waters set the tone as LYC Members spoke with Veterans learning first-hand of their experiences. They spoke of the surreal experience from arriving at Portsmouth Port, the journey across the vast Channel and what was the culmination of months of arduous work, to the last two days of preparation for one of the biggest moments in their lives. The joyful weight expectation fired within them. It has left an indelible impression of the reality of the sacrifices made for us all.

We learnt of those intimate conversation with the Veterans, of the tears as those 17, 18 and older spoke of that day, as well as the time after until the war ended; the horror too much to detail fully. The tears and goosebumps of the LYC Members similar in age and the utter sorrow of what they were truly privileged to receive from those primary personal accounts. Amongst the Veterans they spoke to was 98 year-old #NorrieBartlett, who joined the Royal Navy in 1942 at the age of 16?and was?travelling back to Normandy ?to remember friends who never came home.?Some members have not known grief in their lives, let alone a grief of this magnitude.?

When they learned that Veteran Norrie Bartlett loved to sing, LYC Chamber Choir offered to sing a song with him, leading to an impromptu performance of folk-song ’The Water is Wide’ to an audience on the ferry. LYC Chamber Choir?Conductor Matthew Quinn described it as an ‘incredibly humbling experience’.

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LYC stunningly performed a specially-commissioned anthem by Andrew Lloyd-Webber ‘Lovingly Remembered’, this piece written, was set to the words of surviving World War II Veteran Cecil Newton, who speaks of ‘the cloak of sorrow’ he wears remembering all those who lost their lives. The Choir sang with accomplished singer-songwriter Naomi Kimpenu and the Central Band of the Royal Air Force, as well as the French and British National Anthems, in front of His Majesty King Charles III, Queen Camilla and Emmanuel Macron and other distinguished VIP dignitaries, none more so than some of the remaining heroes, the D-Day Veterans themselves.?

A new memorial designed by the late Normandy Veteran Patron George Batts himself a young soldier in the Royal Engineers on D-Day, was built in honour of the 22,442 British and Commonwealth Personnel killed during the Battle of Normandy.?‘A place of serene beauty’ “a place to feel a profound sense of emotion from landscape to the sea, the scene of the battleground to the Memorial Liam O’Connor Memorial Architect.

The names of the 1,746 who died on D-Day are inscribed on the D-Day Wall of Memorial Court.

?Those who died in the period between 7th June and the 31st August are inscribed on the columns of the Memorial their details honoured including their date of death.

On Saturday 15th June the nation indeed, the world saw ‘Trooping The Colour’ marking The King’s official birthday and also celebrating the Monarch's links to the Armed Forces, with military magnificence. The honour to ‘troop’ which actually means ‘to carry aloft’ is given to junior officers through to the rank of soldiers. Watching on screen, a family tradition beginning with our late Parents from the Windrush generation, we began discussing the origins, and brimming over from the recent participation in the D-Day commemoration, we learned more of the poignancy of the flags as well as some ‘web-research’ for the factual definition; ‘Colours’ are the set of physical flags and colour schemes that are associated with a particular regiment within the army.

?In the UK, the use of colours as we know them originated in the seventeenth century…’ The King wore the tunic of the ‘Guard of Honour Order, the Irish Guards’. This is also a mark of respect to remember those who have gone before us, killed in action and their achievements embroidered on the Colour, with their battle honours. The honour to troop their colour rotates through the five regiments of Foot Guards, and this year 2024 it lay honourably with Number 9 Company Irish Guards. Standards are trooped across the Commonwealth too.

With the sun breaking through the thunderous rainstorm, our front row 'window seats' and to the booming sounds as the airborne military procession, we savoured the air show extravaganza, formations and varying aircrafts, including the Red Arrows - flew over our home, we saw generations and nationalities salute the cause, on the Cricket Pavilion opposite us, on our Road and the surrounding streets, cheers for the ‘flypast’ saluting the Monarch’s birthday and rightly, in dignified mark of respect, that we never forget the debt of gratitude owed.

Leading up to D-Day 80 other events took place such as the amazing Radio Station visit and interview with Caribbean Veterans and World War 2 Veterans speaking with Bedfordshire Hospital Radio host Valma James, followed by a commemoration reception.?

Similarly, was the interview of Retired Captain veteran Paul Chambers on Supreme Radio ‘Spilling The Tea’ with host Juliet Gee. Retired Captain Chambers is the founder of the British West India Regiments Heritage Trust (BWIRHT), which honours and remembers the contributions of the West India Regiments (1795 -1927 & 1958-1962) and the British West Indies Regiment (1915-1921). In 2023 the 75th anniversary of HMT Empire Windrush the Royal British Legion and National Windrush Museum commissioned the Windrush Lanterns reminding us of the 'call of duty from 1795 through to helping rebuild Britain after the Second World War."

Capt. Chambers reports "we lower the Standards and lay a wreath to remember them but also to bring together and highlight the West Indian soldiers in the British Armed Forces today...the lanterns remind us that the human spirit of West Indians still burns strongly through adversity."

As we approach the 76th Anniversary of #WindrushDay we celebrate all of the contributions in the war World War I & II and to Britain from those of the Commonwealth of West Indies as ‘Why Are West Indians In This Country? – Britain Called, We Answered’ Voluntary Project set up by Horace Barnes after the death of his uncle, Empire Windrush Passenger 680 Lloyd Hylton. They work with Royal British legion Armed Forces Charity ‘Soldiers Sailors, & Airmen’s Families Association’ (SSAFA), Churches, military, Schools, and local authorities when called and communities group states: “to appreciate the story of Windrush we first have to go back to the Second Word War when Winston Churchill called on the rest of King George V1’s Empire across the seas. This decision changed the course of the war for Britain and her allies. Once the war ended many of the Commonwealth forces returned to their home nations but not so for many of those from the West Indies whose loyalty to the Mother Country knew no bounds. Steeped in a history of loyalty for over 500 years. Speaking with Horace Barnes we discussed this long relationship and the reason why they have the anthem ‘You raise me up’ this generation and that of Soldiers and Military Personnel stand on the shoulders of the giants before them and their stories must be told. With the military in our families, the memories of their contributions will stay alive.

To say this magnificent but solemn experience has been transformative for our Young WoCiP Influencer and those involved in LYC Chamber Choir, does not do the herculean efforts justice. It has also taught us more from those personal, first-hand testimonies shared through tears and overwhelming emotion; this will be with them for their lifetime. To hear ‘this is my last time here paying my respects and saying farewell’ brought that piercing reality of the #History before them. They will tell their peers and the generations to come, ‘we were there’ in humble respect. We #Shall continue to tell their story.