Britain's oldest Second World War veteran will be celebrated on Bank Holiday Monday, May 6
People will have the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the Royal Air Force's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight when a Spitfire takes to the skies this weekend. Operating from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire, the flight operates six Spitfires, two Hurricanes, a Lancaster, a C47 Dakota, and two Chipmunk aircraft.
But on Bank Holiday Monday, May 6, to celebrate Britain's oldest Second World War veteran who happens to reside on the Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire border, two Spitfires will fly over Ilkeston.Ex-Desert Rat Donald Rose is 109 and lives in Canal Vue care home on Awsworth Road. To honour the veteran two of the iconic warplanes will be in local airspace at around 1.45pm on May 6, as part of a larger wartime-themed celebration in the town.
The dad of one, whose wife died in 2001, was repeatedly decorated, including being given France’s highest award – the Legion D'Honneur. But his son David Rose, 74 – a retired NHS hospital technician living in West Hallam – said: “He didn’t want the medals, he wanted no fuss and he just got on with it.”
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