My father returns to the Normandy beaches for the 65th anniversary of D-Day with colleagues from the Hackney (East London) branch of the Normandy Veterans' Association. He landed on Juno beach at about 5am after the first wave of Canadians had landed and gone ashore. He and his comrades were tasked with holding the beach until re-enforcements arrived. He was later in the first boat that crossed the Seine river but was captured shortly afterwards when his platoon ran out of ammunition and his commanding officer surrendered his men to a German patrol after a fire-fight. He ended up as a P.o.W in Munich.
