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Tributes to Normandy veteran from Cornwall who has died aged 101
10+ hour, 16+ min ago (457+ words) Tributes have been paid following the death of a 101-year-old Normandy veteran who helped liberate France from the Nazis. Richard Aldred, from Callington, served in the 7th Armoured Division and helped liberate Bourneville with his tank crew in 1944. He was later…...
Crewe D-Day veteran, 102, accepts MBE from Princess Royal
15+ hour, 19+ min ago (416+ words) A D-Day veteran who was the youngest RAF sergeant to take part in the Normandy landings has received his MBE medal. Bernard Morgan, 102, was handed his award during a ceremony hosted by the Princess Royal at Windsor Castle on Tuesday....
Tributes for World War Two and D-Day veteran who died aged 100
12+ hour, 38+ min ago (507+ words) A World War Two veteran who was an officer during D-Day has died aged 100, his family says. Tony Winterburn survived bomb raids and other attacks while serving in the Merchant Navy, taking part in the perilous Arctic convoys of 1943 that…...
'I was only woman to board Hitler's yacht', says 101-year-old from Surrey
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (426+ words) A 101-year-old from Surrey says she was the first and only woman ever to set foot aboard Hitler's yacht after it was captured by Allied forces. Anne Macleod-Carey, who served in the Women's Royal Naval Service, or Wrens, during World…...
Hull Minster celebrates Spitfire's 90th anniversary
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (309+ words) A celebration of the 90th anniversary of the Spitfire is to be held outside Hull Minster later. A replica of the MKII Spitfire will be on show in Trinity Square as part of a day of events commemorating the aircraft's first…...
Remembering the Spitfire as British symbol of freedom
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (721+ words) "Don't change a thing" - this is what Captain Joseph "Mutt" Summers declared after taking the Supermarine Spitfire prototype, K5054, from Eastleigh Aerodrome to the skies for the first time on 5 March 1936. Summers had spent only eight minutes to test the limits…...
Tributes to Solihull World War Two veteran who has dies aged 105
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (401+ words) Tributes have been paid to a World War Two veteran who has died aged 105. Born in 1920 in Liverpool during the Spanish flu pandemic, Geoffrey Doyle served in the Royal Corps of Signals during the war. His family said he was…...
Basildon Army medic honoured for raising awareness of PTSD
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (346+ words) An Army veteran who lived with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for 17 years has received a national award for his mental health campaign work. Kevin Russell, from Basildon, Essex, joined the Army aged 21 and served as a medic for five years,…...
Oxfordshire enthusiast on what makes the Spitfire so iconic
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (365+ words) "Well apart from being totally gorgeous as an aeroplane, it's a symbol." Thursday marks the 90th anniversary of the first test flight of a new prototype plane that would go on to become Britain's most iconic aircraft - the Spitfire. Pilot Captain…...
Salisbury funeral held for former WW2 prisoner of war, aged 105
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (587+ words) A funeral service has been held for an "extraordinary" World War Two veteran who survived three and a half years as a prisoner of war. James 'Jim' Wren, the UK's oldest Royal Marine, survived the sinking of HMS Repulse in…...