British D-Day veteran awarded highest French honour

89-year-old British D-Day Veteran Ted Turner, who goes to St John’s Church, Purbrook, was awarded the Legion d’Honneur by the French government at a ceremony at the Royal Marines Museum in Southsea. He is among the first United Kingdom D-Day veterans in the country to be given the award, and the first from the Portsmouth area. As an …

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