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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Sam Hall

Royal Navy veteran, 99, remembers men on ship who ‘never came home’

Stan Ford suffered lifelong injuries when the ship he was on sank off the Normandy coast in August 1944 (Jordan Pettitt / PA) - (PA Wire)

A 99-year-old Royal Navy veteran said he was thinking on Remembrance Sunday of the men on his ship who “never came home”.

Stan Ford served on HMS Fratton, which escorted ships taking people back to the UK and was stationed off Selsey Bill on the south coast on D-Day.

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