A World War Two hero who lied about his age to sign up and fight for Britain aged just 17 has died at the age of 101.
Veteran Donald Turrell, born in London in 1925, was a teenager when he enlisted in the Army after forging a letter from his parents.
But he went on to fight in Normandy, landing on Sword Beach in France in June 1944 in the days following D-Day, where he took part in fierce fighting against occupying German troops.
Mr Turrell joined the Scottish Cameronians as a rifleman upon enlisting and was stationed in various places across the UK in the following months, including Bury St Edmunds, Newquay, Newcastle and Fort William in the Scottish Highlands.
He was injured in the Battle of Eterville on July 10, 1944, by a mortar blast while fighting near Hill 112 under Operation Jupiter, which saw his company pinned down under heavy machine gun fire.
