D-Day success: Ireland’s input

Almost certainly unnoticed by holidaymakers making their way to and from England’s cross-Channel ferry ports and Eurotunnel stations is a modest 1914-18 war memorial on Folkestone’s seafront promenade.

It has an extract from Tennyson’s lines on the death of the Duke of Wellington: “Not once or twice in our rough island story, the path of duty was the way to glory.”