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BROOK JONES / FREE PRESS The Royal Winnipeg Rifles Association host an 80th D-Day anniversary ceremony at Vimy Ridge Park in Winnipeg, Man., Saturday, June 8, 2024. Pictured: Winnipeg resident Jonathan Williams holds a copy of the Free Press following the ceremony. His grandfather Allan Williams, who was born in 1923 and died in 2005, was an infrantry soldier with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles during the Commonwealth invasion of Normandy, France on D-Day June 6, 1944 and is featured in a Library and Archives Canada photo that appeared on the front page of section 49.8 of the Free Press Saturday, June 1, 2024.