Arthur Jones (3)

Extended Description: Among the veterans who went to Normandy for the 75th anniversary is William ‘Arthur’ Jones, who drove a Sherman tank with the Essex Yeomanry during the Battle of Normandy. In 1944, he was 18 years old a few days after the landings, he was in the thick of the fighting, taking part in the protracted slog to take Caen. Arthur was one of many veterans taken back to France this year by the Royal British Legion

Photographs of two Arthur’s together and extract credited to https://www.countrylife.co.uk/news/d-day-veterans-words-lot-men-brave-things-simply-told-197429

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