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’
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