This week, as we commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy which followed, we will, rightly, pay tribute to all the Allied nations that played their part.
ROBERT HARDMAN: No one is entirely sure how many Normandy veterans are still with us. In theory, anyone old enough to have been on active service on June 6, 1944 would be at least 98 now.
Royal Canadian Legion branches across the country hold Decoration Day on the first Sunday in June to remember those who fought in battles that occurred before the First World War, when Canada was finding its footing as a nation during its earliest days.
As D-Day nears its 80th anniversary on June 6, here MailOnline tells the stories of just a few of the women who helped play their part in the world's biggest amphibious invasion.
