Portraits Of British D-Day Veterans: Richard Llewellyn

WEST KIRBY, ENGLAND - MARCH 22: (EDITOR`S NOTE: Image has been scanned from a hand printed black and white photograph, colour version not available.) Royal Navy Midshipman Richard Llewellyn, aged 94, poses for a portrait at his home on March 22, 2019 in West Kirby, England. Richard Llewellyn served aboard HMS Ajax which was the first ship to open fire on D-Day off Gold beach and partially destroyed her first target, a battery of 6 guns at Longues in 8 minutes. It took a further two hours to silence the heavily fortified Longues German Battery. As the 75th anniversary of D-Day approaches, some of the handful of surviving Normandy Veterans are making their way to France to commemorate the landings, which saw 156,000 troops from the allied countries including the United Kingdom, the United States and France join forces to launch an audacious attack on the beaches of Normandy which helped lead to the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany. Richard Llewellyn is one of the veterans travelling to Normandy for the 75th Commemorations with the charity D-Day Revisited which will have extra poignance, as this year will be the charity's final organised visit. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)