TWO nephews are on a journey of remembrance pay his respects to an uncle who took part in the D-Day landings. Computer software company director Nigel Richards, from Cornworthy, and his brother Ian will be attending the 70th anniversary commemorations on the Normandy coast and later will be guests at a reception at the inland village of Creully. Their uncle, Trooper Harry Hampson, of the 4/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, was among those who went ashore at 6.30am on June 6, 1944. A radio operator in a Sherman duplex drive 'swimming' tank, he landed with Brigade HQ at Gold Beach sector. Once the beach head was secured, his regiment fought their way inland to the village of Creully in Normandy where they made camp for the night. And it is the mayor of Creully who now welcomes the brothers – who will be riding their vintage Velocette and Norton motorbikes from Roscoff to the Normandy beaches – each year with a bottle of calvados and lunch. Trooper Hampson was just 20 on September 9, 1944, when he was fatally wounded in a well-documented counter attack by 6th Fallschirmjäger – German paratroopers – on Allied positions at Beringen bridge on the Albert Canal in Belgium. He died three days later. 'Uncle Harry went missing in action and many of his comrades thought he was killed on the Normandy beaches,' said Mr Richards, of Broadridge Farm. 'But he actually died a few months later. 'His sister, my mother Dorothy, went over at the end of the war when it was discovered he was buried in a cemetery in Brussels.' A few years ago, Mr Richards and his brother Ian, from Cornwall, rode their bikes to Beringen to meet two Belgians who were farm boys at the time and witnessed the attack. Mr Richards said he had been attending the D-Day commemorations for the past six years but thought this would be his last for a while. 'Apart from this year being 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, what makes 2014 different for me is that, due to increased security, a pass is now required for us to gain access to Creully,' he said. 'The Ministry of Defence has forwarded our applications on to the French authorities so, suffice to say, we shall not be barred from reaching our uncle's regimental memorial. Strange, though, we [the Allied invasion force] did not need a pass in 1944.'