Cadman was a Chelsea Pensioner for 14 years and attended D-Day commemorations with the help of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans
Cadman was a Chelsea Pensioner for 14 years and attended D-Day commemorations with the help of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans
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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…
As captain of a Catalina flying-boat he destroyed a German U-boat and returned his aircraft to safety despite receiving 72…
Don Butt, aged 100, has been overlooked for the Légion d’honneur despite participating in the Normandy landings in 1944
After four months at sea, he left the destroyer Hardy weeks before it was sunk, a loss that haunted him for years
Five former soldiers travel to Normandy ceremony to ‘remember all our friends who never came home’
John Cruickshank who hunted submarines as captain of a Catalina flying boat was one of only 181 recipients of highest military…
