On Saturday the 10th of June Trebah Garden hosted their annual military event to pay respect and remember those who have lost their lives serving for the British Armed Forces.

The garden has two strong military connections but many people in attendance including Falmouth's mayor Kirstie Edwards, representatives from Falmouth Lifeboat, and the Royal British legion Penryn for the 79th anniversary of D-Day.

There was a chance to lay wreaths (Image: Penryn Town Council)

During World War Two, Trebah Garden say that their head gardener Robert Day, and a small group of staff did little more than maintain the garden. The beach was concreted and the boathouse and rocks were dynamited to create access for tanks. The garden was used as an ammunition store, and trenches were dug in the lower part of the garden.

The garden provided some of the history behind the story on its website, which said: "On 1 June 1944, a regiment of 7,500 men of the 29th US Infantry Division, along with their tanks, guns, and transport, embarked from Trebah Beach in ten 150-foot flat-bottomed LST landing craft.

"For five days they battled through enormous seas to the Isle of Wight and then on to the D-Day assault landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy, where they suffered grievous casualties."

There is now a memorial at the bottom of the garden that commemorates the courage of the brave young American soldiers.

Falmouth Lifeboat also shared some images as their Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat, Robina Nixon Chard, and our Lifeboat Operations Manager (LOM), Nick Lewis both attended the day.

Lifeboat Operations Manager Nick Lewis (Image: Falmouth Lifeboat)

Falmouth lifeboat said: "Nick himself served in the Royal Air Force from the early 1970s as a Flight Line Mechanic (Liney) on Jet Provost Aircraft, before becoming a deep sea diver.

Nick Lewis there to pay respect (Image: Falmouth Lifeboat)

"He joined Falmouth Lifeboat station as crew in 1985 and served on both the inshore and all-weather lifeboats, for a total of twenty-six years, before becoming a Deputy Launching Authority and then ultimately three years ago taking on today's role as the station's Lifeboat Operations Manager."