Elsecar D-Day veteran Geoff Steer, 91, gives us his perspective on remembrance in his own words.

I'VE no need to wait until Remembrance Sunday. I've only to close my eyes to remember.

I can see it. I can see all of it.

D-Day, on the beaches, or in Tessel Wood, in the trenches. I can see it all.

I remember being on the landing craft, boats in front of us, behind us, left and right, waiting to go up the beach. It was just horrendous. The sound of the guns, lads getting killed everywhere.

Somehow I got through it. We went on to fight the battle of Cristot. We took it, and somehow I got through that too.

The lads used call me the undertaker. Just after D-Day we were in these trenches at Tessel Wood for a month. The Germans were shelling us, and when lads got killed, it was me that buried them.

I remember two lads, Fraser and Fowler, and they'd gone off to get a shower - we'd been in the trench about three week by this time and we'd not had a bath or a shower, we stank to high heaven.

They went off and when they got back they looked like something out of Burton's window. Not five minutes later, they were dead.I heard these four bangs, one after another.

I jumped in one trench straight on top of this chap who was asleep. He said 'what you doing' I said to him 'shut up, I want to hear where these next four are going'. Then we heard another four coming, whistling, meaning they were going over the top of us.

I went to check on the lads. Fraser and Fowler, well, their trench was just a sea of red. They had a direct hit.

I buried them together because I couldn't tell them apart.

Next trench there was a bugler, from Ryhill. He was dead with his bugle in is hand. His mate the cook was next to him he'd been reading a book. He'd not even flinched. They didn't feel a thing.

That's who I'll be thinking about Remembrance Sunday. Those lads, and hundreds more. Thousands.

I don't need to wait for Remembrance Sunday, it's there for me every day. I can go through it like it's a film.

But I hope people do wear their poppies with pride to show that we'll never forgot all those that we left over there.