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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rod Minchin

Family of late D-Day veteran Harry Billinge urge well-wishers to be guardians

The family of the late D-Day veteran Harry Billinge is urging those wishing to pay their respects to become guardians of the British Normandy Memorial.

Mr Billinge, who died earlier this month aged 96 after a short illness, was just 18 when he was one of the first British soldiers to land on Gold Beach in 1944.

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