Don Butt, aged 100, has been overlooked for the Légion d’honneur despite participating in the Normandy landings in 1944
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Don Butt, aged 100, has been overlooked for the Légion d’honneur despite participating in the Normandy landings in 1944
Don Butt, aged 100, has been overlooked for the Légion d’honneur despite participating in the Normandy landings in 1944
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Five former soldiers travel to Normandy ceremony to ‘remember all our friends who never came home’

Tolley Fletcher, at the time a 19-year-old Navy gunner's mate, remembers the rough seas and the treacherous landing troops made…

D-Day gunner flooded with gifts and messages after appeal to celebrate 100th birthday in style

Cadman was a Chelsea Pensioner for 14 years and attended D-Day commemorations with the help of the Taxi Charity for Military…

Dougie Shelley, who was on HMS Milne on D-Day, celebrated his birthday at the Royal Naval Association branch in Southend, Essex.

Jim Glennie received his message from the King and was formally presented with his British Empire Medal.