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'Underage' D-Day hero dies aged 102: Tributes paid to WWII commando who signed up at 17 before helping to capture Pegasus Bridge during Normandy landings

Roy Cadman landed at Sword Beach at Normandy on June 6, 1944. He was part of the relieving force for Major John Howard's 6th Airborne Division paratroopers who had seized the bridge.

31 days ago

D-Day hero, 99, who ferried Allied troops onto beaches of Normandy as a teenager laughs with Keir Starmer during VE Day procession - ahead of tea with the King at Buckingham Palace

Albert Keir was pictured having a chuckle with the PM ahead of the military procession. The pair had the best seats in the house on the specially built dais outside Buckingham Palace.

35 days ago

3 months ago

French fugitive whose escape left two officers dead extradited from Romania

Mohamed Amra’s arrest ends nine-month manhunt when armed assailants ambushed prison convoy in Normandy

A notorious French fugitive who staged a deadly escape that killed two guards last year has been …

Agnès B: ‘I hate fashion. It’s not interesting.’

The designer, 83, talks about her troubled childhood, love of art, and how she persuaded David Bowie to drop the dodgy brown suits

During World War Two I remember standing in total darkness in a corri…

D-Day hero leads mourners at funeral of 98-year-old comrade who survived 'carnage' of 1944 Normandy landings after lying about his age to join up

Cliff Brown died last month aged 98 at his home in Swanage, Dorset. He was laid to rest today at St Mary's Church in his hometown. Fellow WWII veteran Peter Lovett paid his final respects.

7 months ago

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