Veterans of the Normandy Campaign and the Battle of Arnhem will have a chance to be reunited with guns, tanks, armoured vehicles and trucks with which they fought during the Second World War.

To celebrate the 65th anniversary of both Operation Overlord and Operation Market Garden, men who took part in both campaigns will be admitted free to the War and Peace Show at The Hop Farm, Paddock Wood, Kent, from July 22 to 26. There will be special rates for their carers and families.

The men will also have a chance to meet old comrades and exchange memories in an area to be set aside for them in the show’s Victory Marquee.

The veterans will be able to inspect vehicles, which like them actually took part in the battles that brought the Second World War to an end.

These include a Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicle (BARV), which was operational on the Normandy beaches during D-Day. And light Howitzer artillery pieces of the kind flown in by glider in the attempt to capture the bridge at Arnhem.

Family tickets to the War and Peace Show can be ordered at a discount from www.thehopfarm.co.uk or www.thewarandpeaceshow.com.