TWO veterans aged in their 90s received a warm welcome at the Veterans Hub for a commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

Peter Price and John Grigg, both aged 94 from Weymouth, went to the Veterans Hub in Weymouth before riding down to Castletown on a Second World War era jeep for a memorial service to those who had fought and died in the Normandy Landings.

The jeep was part of a convoy of old vehicles that was travelling to Portland from Dorchester.

It followed the journey that US soldiers would have taken in 1944 to prepare to board the boats to France.

As the two men left at the end of the service, they received a warm round of applause from the other attendees.

Lisa Rushby from the Veterans Hub said that the men were surprised to receive such a reaction.

She said: "As far as they were concerned, they just did what they had to do. But they are heroes. They really are.

"The day was about Peter and John and remembering what their generation did."

Lisa explained that John Grigg had a particularly tough time in the war, having fought in North Africa, moved up into Europe through Sicily and was injured just before the end of the war.

This year marks 75 years since Operation Overlord, in which Allied forces invaded Nazi-occupied France.

It is frequently cited as a turning point in the Second World War.

The Veterans Hub in Weymouth is an organisation that was set up to help veterans and their families.

It was founded in 2017 by Andy Price, an ex-soldier who suffered from PTSD, anxiety and depression after spending time deployed in the Middle East and North Africa.

He was persuaded to seek help by his loved ones, after which he set up the organisation.

A spokesman said: "At the Veterans Hub our mission is to provide a bespoke and immediate service for our veterans and their families within the local community when they need it the most.

"The Veterans Hub, above all things, will bring together veterans within the local community in order that none of them are ever left behind or forgotten about."