Fearless WW2 veteran who cheated death twice in one day when he survived a mortar bomb and German sniper before escaping from a prisoner of war camp with Queen Camilla's father dies aged 102

Captain Ron Johnson (pictured) took part in Operation Market Garden, the focus of the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far, and cheated death twice on the same day before he was captured by the Germans.

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