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© Roger-Viollet/Shutterstock Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up There was never any question of standing on ceremony when I visited Eric Johnston at his home in Aberdeen. The elderly soldier may have shown conspicuous gallantry throughout the hostilities, but he refused to regard himself as a hero and even told me he “disliked” the word. Yes, he was proud of being awarded the Legion d’honneur by the French government but only because it allowed him to salute many of his comrades who had perished on the beaches on Normandy when the Allied invasion was met with prolonged and deadly resistance by the German army.

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