For ten years now, the youth group from Caen who remember the sacrifice of the Westlake Brothers from Canada have been coming to Portsmouth to hold a ceremony in their honour.
These three brothers died within days of D-day in the battle of Normandy, which would eventually lead to the liberation of Caen, France's first major city to be liberated after the D-Day landings whose embarkation and organisation was largely managed in Portsmouth and its surrounding area. You can read more about these Toronto brothers here. The group from France is the same group who have been coming to Portsmouth to hold this ceremony for the past 10 years.
The Westlake Brothers Memorial Group or 'Westlake Brothers Souvenir' as they are known in Caen have their own Facebook page on the previous link.
On March 24th, 2018 the group came to Portsmouth's Guildhall Cenotaph to hold their memorial at 11am to mark the brother's sacrifice. Afterwards they were hosted by the Lord Mayor in the Civic Offices in their aptly named Caen Room.
Here are some images of the event on March 24th 2018.
Jean François Born has done a research memoir on the Westlake Brothers as part of his Masters Degree in history at the University of Ottawa and this can be read here.
This article from Toronto shows images of the three brothers who died in the battle for Caen in 1944.
A further article on Westlake Brothers Memorial Group and their battles with neo-nazis in France before the 70th anniversary of D-Day from a Canadian newspaper can be found here.