The Airborne Memorial Service is held annually at Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, the final resting place of more than 1,750 allied troops from the 1st Airborne Division and the Polish Parachute Briga

The Princess Royal has laid a wreath and spoken with veterans at a service commemorating the soldiers who died during the Battle of Arnhem 80 years ago. Princess Anne and her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence,

Arnhem veteran Geoff Roberts laid the last wreath at the British cemetery in Oosterbeek on Sunday. Roberts, who fought in the Battle of Arnhem during Operation Market Garden in 1944, concluded the wreath-laying ceremony at the monument at the cemetery to minutes of applause.