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To commemorate 100 years since the 11 November 1918 Armistice and the end of WW1 people of Portsmouth are honouring the fallen from WW1 on the streets in the city where they once lived. Council Leader Cllr Gerald Vernon Jackson who put up the first board in Reginald Road on 31 October said: " This is a poignant way of remembering our fallen first world one heroes and enabling residents to connect with their local history and community."        Nearly 6,000 residents gave their lives during the conflict from 846 streets in the city. From 5 November their names will be displayed on boards to be erected in the streets where they lived to honour them and thank them for their sacrifice. All boards will be in place for the commemorations on 11 th  November. Greatest losses were sustained by Newcome Road which lost 24 residents and King Street and Reginald Road which each lost 23 residents. The names of those that we don’t have addresses for will be...

LCT 7074 to be focal point of The National Museum of the Royal Navy’s affiliate Portsmouth’s D-Day Museum thanks to £4.7m from The National Lottery For the first time ever an original Landing Craft Tank (LCT) will be on display at the D-Day Museum in Portsmouth. This has been made possible thanks to an investment of nearly £5m from The National Lottery and has been planned to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the landings in two years’ time. The D-Day Museum is an affiliate of The National Museum of the Royal Navy which is managing the project. Due to reopen in 2018 following a complete refurbishment, the D-Day Museum offers a much more in-depth narrative on the events that took place in ‘Operation Overlord’ on 6 June 1944 and looks specifically at the Royal Navy and how its crews coped on that day. Over 800 LCTs with the capacity to carry 10 tanks or equivalent armoured vehicles were involved in ‘Operation Neptune’, the naval element of ‘Overlord’. The largest amphi...