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He had joined the military at 18 and in 1943 was called up to HMS
Royal Arthur, doing his initial training at Butlin’s holiday camp in Skegness, which had been commandeered for the war effort.
Geoffrey Noble
He recalled D-Day as a traumatic experience. “Many soldiers drowned, others reached the beaches and were hit by some of the mines. That sticks in my memory,” he said. “It’s still in my memory – all the time about the poor soldiers. Some were only 18.”
He returned to Normandy on several occasions with the Royal British Legion, and in 2019 was joined by his daughter, Celia Broom, when 255 D-Day veterans joined a cruise ship to mark the 75th anniversary.
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