The largest seaborne landing in history will be commemorated tomorrow evening by the pipers and drummers of North Berwick Pipe Band.

The band will solemnly mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day by marching up from the water’s edge at West Beach, below the anchor at Elcho Green in the West Bay, starting at 8.30 pm.

Derek Easton, North Berwick Pipe Band president, said: "We always like to take part in major military commemorative events as it is great to perform at them and remember the people that have been lost who helped give us our freedoms.

"It also reminds the younger generation of the sacrifice that people from those years made and to remember the people who lost their lives on D-Day."

Eighty years ago, the combined army, navy and air forces of Britain, United States and Canada and other allies attacked the five beaches of Normandy – codenamed for the day as Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword – in a massive operation which marked the beginning of the end of the Second World War.

Iconic brigadier Lord Lovat led 1st Special Service Brigade on Sword Beach, accompanied by his personal piper Bill Millin, who jumped from the landing craft into knee-deep water and headed for the beach playing the tune ‘Highland Laddie’.

The piper was not shot at and he lived to be 88, although more than 4,400 Allied troops were killed on D-Day itself and over 5,000 were wounded.

Tomorrow, commemorations will be taking place across the country, and local pipers and drummers in North Berwick will remember this historic event, and play the tune ‘Highland Laddie’ again.