A NEW display will showcase Swindon's contribution to D-Day.

The display's opening, on Thursday, June 6, in the Royal British Legion's Swindon pop-in centre on Regent Street, will mark the 75th anniversary of the first day of Operation Overlord, the official codename given to the World War Two beach landings.

Isobel Thompson of the Royal British Legion said: "A new display about D-Day will be officially opened during a coffee morning. The display will focus on the work that the local community did to support D-Day, and on the local regiments which took part in it and the campaign to liberate Northern Europe.

"Children from Ferndale School have written poetry and created art work to help us to remember the sacrifices that so many troops made during D-Day, the largest naval, land and air operation in history."

The coffee morning is on June 6, 10.30am to 12pm.