A WW2 veteran with no surviving relatives hopes to receive a blitz of birthday cards when he turns 105 following a charity appeal. Ernest Horsfall, who has seen 27 Prime Ministers and five British monarchs in his lifetime, served in both London and North Africa where he maintain Allied tanks.
But now the Royal British Legion called for the brave ex-servicemen to get a deluge of letters for his big day next month. The ex-staff sergeant served with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) from 1940 to 1946, before settling in Lancashire where he worked for Vauxhall Motors.
Remarkably, Ernest went on to take flying lessons at 43 and was a private pilot until the age of 93 when couldn’t get insured. He maintained aircraft until he was 101.
