Two more Normandy veterans have received France’s highest honour.

Richard Samson and Stanley Elliss were presented with the Légion d’honneur for their action in the D-Day landings of 1944.

They were presented their medals aboard the Saga Sapphire cruise ship at Dover Western Docks.

Mr Samson, 96, of Eastry was a lance corporal with the Royal Engineers. His main role in Normandy was manning the supply chain from Mulberry harbours, temporary harbours set up for the offloading of Allied cargo.

Mr Elliss, 96 of Smeeth, near Ashford, was an RAF sergeant.

He was a commando for the air force and landed with his comrades on the first day of invasion, June 6. He was in Normandy until that August.

Mr Elliss prepared and maintained forward airstrips for use by Allied aircraft and was highly skilled in aeroplane maintenance. The presentations were made by James Ryeland, managing director of the Dover Cargo Terminal operators George Hammond PLC.

Mr Ryeland read out a tribute speech by Jean-Marc Todeschini, France’s Minister of State for Veterans and Remembrance.

The Légion d’honneur was established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte and is for both military and civilian merit. In 2014, on the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the then French President François Hollande announced that the award would go to all British veterans who fought for the liberation of France in 1944-45.

D-Day was the very start of the Allied invasion and liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe.