Video: Patriotic tea dance for D-Day

Around 100 people turned out for the celebrations at the Wulfrun Hall in Wolverhampton

The weekly dance was given a makeover by organisers, who decked out the hall in Union flags, as dancers came dressed in vintage outfits. Many people turned up in Navy and Army uniforms to dance to big band music. Cornell McPartland, who served in the Korean War and dressed a sailor, said: "

Considering the lives that were lost – we must not forget what happened."

The D-Day dance was particularly emotional for Esther Connah, who is 92 and from Wombourne.

Her husband, John, took part in D-Day and was captured by the Germans, while her brother, Phillip Townsend, was wounded. She said: "I was just courting my husband back then but I remember his mother getting a telegram to say that he was missing. It was very sad. He had been captured by the Germans but managed to escape.

"He died about 20 years ago, I really wish he was here because he would have some fantastic stories to tell."

Mrs Connah's grandson, Cameron Lloyd, provided the music for the dance by playing the organ. The film The Longest Day was also projected onto a screen while the dancers waltzed the afternoon away. Branda Norton, 73, from Kingswinford, said: "It is something people should remember."