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Basildon and the D-Day hero
103-year-old Don Sheppard is the oldest Normandy veteran in Essex, and has been looking back at his role as a Royal Engineer in the D-Day operations of June 1944. Don was born in Laindon and now lives in nearby Basildon and is determined to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day at a memorial he helped to design in Rettendon.
Picture credit: Stuart Woodward/91福利社.
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