A village that has been empty since it was evacuated to make way for D-Day training exercises 79 years ago is to have a final funeral after its last son died.
Allied forces cleared 150 villagers from the Wiltshire village of Imber in December 1943 and they were not allowed to return after the war.
The village, which was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, remains part of the Army’s Salisbury Plain training area and is open to visitors only a few times a year.
