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D Day
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Raith_C_Chattonell said:My Uncle Den was 100 on June 3rd.
He is literally the last man standing from 48 Royal Marine Commando. 48 Commando joined the Canadians on Juno beach, just a few days after his 20th birthday.2 -
Raith_C_Chattonell said:My Uncle Den was 100 on June 3rd.
He is literally the last man standing from 48 Royal Marine Commando. 48 Commando joined the Canadians on Juno beach, just a few days after his 20th birthday.0 -
AddicksAddict said:Raith_C_Chattonell said:My Uncle Den was 100 on June 3rd.
He is literally the last man standing from 48 Royal Marine Commando. 48 Commando joined the Canadians on Juno beach, just a few days after his 20th birthday.1 -
AddicksAddict said:Raith_C_Chattonell said:My Uncle Den was 100 on June 3rd.
He is literally the last man standing from 48 Royal Marine Commando. 48 Commando joined the Canadians on Juno beach, just a few days after his 20th birthday.0 -
AddicksAddict said:Raith_C_Chattonell said:My Uncle Den was 100 on June 3rd.
He is literally the last man standing from 48 Royal Marine Commando. 48 Commando joined the Canadians on Juno beach, just a few days after his 20th birthday.1 -
Raith_C_Chattonell said:My Uncle Den was 100 on June 3rd.
He is literally the last man standing from 48 Royal Marine Commando. 48 Commando joined the Canadians on Juno beach, just a few days after his 20th birthday.You've got good genes if you take after him, he doesn't look a day over 70! And all power to him, a proper hero.
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IdleHans said:Raith_C_Chattonell said:My Uncle Den was 100 on June 3rd.
He is literally the last man standing from 48 Royal Marine Commando. 48 Commando joined the Canadians on Juno beach, just a few days after his 20th birthday.You've got good genes if you take after him, he doesn't look a day over 70! And all power to him, a proper hero.
Because the people who destroyed the Nazis deserve every honour going.
Was he awarded it this year?1 -
Uncle Den's dad lived to 99 @IdleHans - sadly my own father just 77 - which I'm uncomfortably close to.
Den was awarded the Legion of Honour a few years ago @NornIrishAddick. I think I'm right in saying all surviving veterans from Normandy were awarded the medal. He certainly had it when I last met him two years ago. He brought the medal along with him. He is rightly immensely proud of it I grouped these photos together following that occasion (showing both sides of the medal, Den at the time + the original marine one).
Den has lived in France near the Spanish border with his daughter for the last 8 or 9 years.
Den's military record is well documented here.
https://www.royalmarineshistory.com/post/the-last-man-standing-the-story-of-dennis-donovan-48-royal-marine-commando-juno-beach#:~:text=The Story of Dennis Donovan, the last,standing, 48 Royal Marine Commando.&text=Dennis was born on the,was evacuated to the countryside.
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Raith_C_Chattonell said:Uncle Den's dad lived to 99 @IdleHans - sadly my own father just 77 - which I'm uncomfortably close to.
Den was awarded the Legion of Honour a few years ago @NornIrishAddick. I think I'm right in saying all surviving veterans from Normandy were awarded the medal. He certainly had it when I last met him two years ago. He brought the medal along with him. He is rightly immensely proud of it I grouped these photos together following that occasion (showing both sides of the medal, Den at the time + the original marine one).
Den has lived in France near the Spanish border with his daughter for the last 8 or 9 years.
Den's military record is well documented here.
https://www.royalmarineshistory.com/post/the-last-man-standing-the-story-of-dennis-donovan-48-royal-marine-commando-juno-beach#:~:text=The Story of Dennis Donovan, the last,standing, 48 Royal Marine Commando.&text=Dennis was born on the,was evacuated to the countryside.
There were some, including to a Wren, awarded this year.
I know the French are very keen to recognise everyone involved with D-Day, I think it's something they do really well.1 -
81 years ago, today.
https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/events/remembrance-events/d-day2 - Sponsored links:
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God bless all those who served and those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.9