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Neil Pooran

D-Day veteran, 99, is ‘great example to us all’, King says

The King meets 99-year-old D-Day veteran Jim Glennie at the Gordon Highlanders Museum in Aberdeen (Andrew Milligan/PA) - (PA Wire)

The King has praised a 99-year-old D-Day veteran as a “great example to us all” as he toured a regimental museum in Aberdeen.

During the visit, Charles was shown a family heirloom from the First World War, a kilt worn by a soldier who was wounded so grievously he was declared dead – only for his status to be amended to “wounded in action” the next day.

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