Nuneaton and Bedworth will remember those who served their country on Saturday, 8 June, as the nation marks the 80th anniversary of Normandy Day.
One of the borough’s own heroes will be commemorated as a street is renamed after him.
Fusilier Louis Carter died aged 18 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan in 2009 while trying to save a comrade.
He was a former pupil of Our Lady of the Angels Junior School and St. Thomas More School before enrolling in an army training course at Hinckley College.
The named road of Clinic Drive will be renamed Fusilier Louis Carter Drive and the day will also mark 350 years of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
On Saturday, armed forces representatives and civic dignitaries will gather at Nuneaton Town Hall steps for 2:00pm, where Town Crier Paul Gough will make the proclamation marking the day before the party makes its way to face Riversley Park Children’s Centre.
At 2:10pm the parade will form up on Angels Way near the gate to the cemetery and Denise Carter will lay a wreath on her son’s grave.
The parade will step off at 2:30pm and will halt at Clinic Drive, with a service to rename the street, along with the cutting of a ribbon and the revealing of the new sign.
Then the parade will leave Fusilier Louis Carter Drive for a service at the Fusiliers’ (Royal Warwickshire) Memorial for Normandy 80, which is located behind the Museum and Art Gallery in Riversley Park.
The 80th anniversary will be marked in Bedworth with a service at the War Memorial on Thursday, 6 June, at 10:30am, with Nuneaton and Bedworth Mayor Cllr Bill Hancox in attendance.
Also on Thursday, 6 June, the Royal British Legion’s Nuneaton and Stockingford branch is holding an Act of Remembrance at the War Memorial in Riversley Park at 10:30am.
Everybody is welcome to attend both events.