A group of Second World War military re-enactors made their way through Aldbourne and Ramsbury last Saturday to raise money for Cancer Research UK.

Every year members the Screaming Eagles Living History Group don full combat uniform and make the pilgrimage to commemorate the thousands of American troops who passed through Wiltshire during the war.

The 15-mile round trip went from Littlecote House, where the officers of the 101st Airborne 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment were stationed, to Ramsbury and Aldbourne, where the American soldiers lived before they took part in the D-Day landings.

This was the sixth successive year that the group has undertaken the march and organisers are expecting to have raised more than £1,000 for charity.

One of the organisers, Bruce Steggles, said: “We’re planning to do a two-day event next year so we were going to take a break this year to organise it but people were asking us to do it so we said right lets pick a date and a charity and just do it.

“It was boiling hot, it was too hot really, but everyone who started out at 9.30am finished at quarter to four, even an 11 year-old who had never done anything like it before. In fact, sometimes we had to pull him back because he was going too fast for us.”

Organisers want to organise a vehicle convoy next year for the day before the march.