BLITZ veterans will be joined by a host of Liverpool dignitaries and famous faces to mark the 70th anniversary of the wartime bombing raids.
Organisers are inviting anyone who lived through the Blitz in Liverpool and Merseyside to take part in a parade through the city centre tomorrow.
The ceremony will mark the start of three days of commemorative events to pay tribute to the 1,700 lives lost in a week of carnage unleashed by Hitler’s Luftwaffe which destroyed and damaged a third of houses in Liverpool and two thirds in Bootle.
Survivors of the May, 1941, bombings will be joined by Army veteran and campaigner Simon Weston, Walton Iraq veteran Craig Lundberg and one of four surviving Chindits, George Main, from Hale.
Mike McCartney, whose parents met during the Blitz, will also attend, along with John Conteh, Pauline Daniels, representatives from the police, fire and ambulance services and Everton and Liverpool football clubs.
Dignitaries including Merseyside MPs and the Lord Mayor Cllr Hazel Williams will lay wreaths in a solemn ceremony.
Scouse comedian Stan Boardman, who experienced the devastation wreaked on the city first-hand, will also join the march.
Speaking out about the traumatic events he previously said: “You can't articulate it as a child, but back in Everton Valley during the May Blitz I was aware that something happened, something you never forget.
“I was in the local shelter with my sister Aida, my mum Lily, my brother Tommy, and a family friend called Mary Monroe.
