Nine men, aged between 98 and 103, gathered at the Union Jack Club on Friday.
A group of Second World War veterans have come together to share a “bit of living history” ahead of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
D-Day veteran and Ambassador for the British Normandy Memorial Stan Ford, 98, who served with the Royal Navy, meeting a pupil from Norfolk House School “Let’s take the opportunity now to get to know them, to meet them, to hear their stories, to write about their stories, to film their stories, to record their stories so that this bit of living history is captured.”
Mr Aldred, 99, who served as a tank driver and landed on Gold Beach in Normandy the day after D-Day spoke to the children about the camaraderie within his regiment.
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