During World War Two, Mr Aldred was a Cromwell tank driver attached to the 7th Armoured Division in the Army. He met the King at the commemoration of the start of the Battle of Normandy at the ...

Mr Aldred, from Cornwall, said he went to Normandy after D-Day on about July 12 of 1944. He was driving a Cromwell tank in August of the same year when the tank was blown up in Bourneville.