D-Day - Commemoration and Beacon Lighting

So spoilt for photographs today. I attended two events to commemorate the D-Day landings.
First of all, 11:00 in Cheltenham at the War Memorial. There were so many people there including Air Marshall Sir 'Dusty' Miller (laying a wreath in the extra). He is usually in his RAF uniform but today he was in a suit, which prompted me to say to him "Good morning sir, I didn't recognise you with your clothes on"! Luckily he has a wonderful sense of humour (I hope!) Anyway he laughed. 
We had a wonderful flypast by an RAF A400M from RAF Brize Norton, which I wasn't expecting.
I was very pleased that two other RBL Riders made it to the ceremony, photograph in the main collage.
in the top photograph I have featured a view from the top of the hill. In the distance you can see the Malvern Hills, which are between Ledbury, in Herefordshire, and Worcester, in, of course, Worcestershire. So three counties in this one photograph with Gloucester being in the foreground.
The Extra has the beacon, after being lit, a Sunset but not a great photograph I'm afraid, and two ladies holding an 80 D-Day flag with our, Gloucester, MP Richard Graham taking a photograph of them.
Richard really is a great bloke, and incredibly fit, running with his dog twice a day, but he's a mere 66 years old. He set off up the hill at a hell of a pace and I kept up but about half way up I had to say to him that I was flagging. There were some quite steep parts and it's mostly gravel on the pathways. He slowed down to accommodate me and we went further up the hill. I didn't realise how big Robinswood hill is! Along came the Land Rover transporting some VIP's up the hill. As it was t's second run there was space inside. It stopped so I took advantage and jumped in. We went around a bend and there was the beacon, in sight. If I'd realised it was only about 50 yards away I wouldn't have taken a lift, I wasn't having a heart attack or anything, just getting a bit fatigued.
It was a great ceremony, speeches and anecodotes about D-Day, and those that lost their lives on the day and the ensuing battles in the weeks after the 6th June 1944.
So important that we continue to have these ceremonies and to have them publicised and broadcast or they will be forgotten, which would be a huge mistake considering the current world, particularly European, political climate.