A D-Day veteran who helped liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp has died aged 104.
Donald ‘Don’ Sheppard, a dispatch rider for the Royal Engineers, landed on Juno beach on June 6 1944 in a landing ship tank.
Some 156,000 British, American and Canadian troops launched from the sea and air onto French soil in one of the most successful military operations in history, which this year celebrated its 80th anniversary.
On Sunday, the British Normandy Memorial account posted a tribute remembering Mr Sheppard on X.