His son Nicolas spoke movingly of the extraordinary life of the D-Day hero who went on to become head of the Armed Forces, but remained down to earth and without a hint of pomposity .
The former head of the British Army left part of his £490,000 estate to the Gurkha Welfare Trust after his death aged 95.
Field Marshal Lord Edwin Bramall, who was a part of nearly every major UK military campaign from the Second World War until his retirement in 1985, passed away at his home in Crondall, Hampshire in November 2019.
He had landed in Normandy at the age of 21 in charge of a platoon and was wounded twice before fighting his way through Holland towards Berlin, winning the Military Cross, becoming a Knight of the Garter and, eventually, Chief of Defence Staff.
Lord Bramall, who became a life peer as Baron Bramall of Bushfield in 1987, left the majority of his £486,259 estate to his children Nicolas and Sara and his grandchildren.