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Photos: British D-day fellowship disbanding after more than 30 years

Britain's Normandy Veterans Assn. once had 15,000 members. About 600 are still living. Walter Marshall, 89, from left, Henry Draper, 93, and Eric Gower, 90, are among the five remaining in the founding chapter.

Britain’s Normandy Veterans Assn. once had 15,000 members. About 600 are still living. Walter Marshall, 89, from left, Henry Draper, 93, and Eric Gower, 90, are among the five remaining in the founding chapter.  (Henry Chu / Los Angeles Times)

With only a few hundred members still alive, the Normandy Veterans Assn., which at its height had more than 100 branches across Britain and 15,000 members, has decided to dissolve. This fall, the group will hang up its banner for good, in a ceremony in London next to Westminster Abbey.

British D-day veterans group disbanding

Sword Beach, one of the D-day landing sites, is seen in an April 8, 2014, photo.   (David Vincent / Associated Press)

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