A former Royal Navy sailor who is believed to have been the last surviving person to take part in the Dunkirk evacuation 85 years ago has died aged 105.
Duncan McInnes was on board HMS Saladin, which rescued hundreds of troops from the beaches of northern France in May 1940.
The telegraphist recounted making seven return trips while being dive-bombed by the Germans. Saladin was hit several times but remained afloat.
Against the odds he survived Operation Dynamo, the code name for the successful evacuation of 330,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk.
Although the retreat in the face of the rampage through France of Adolf Hitler's Nazi forces was disastrous, it enabled Britain to continue fighting in the Second World War.
