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.

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 ...