Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II and was a junior ...

Cecil Newton, from the village of Aldbourne in Wiltshire, was in the thick of it as the allied forces stormed the beaches at ...

Pope Leo XIV's father, Louis Marius Prevost, served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Prevost Snr. was born on July 28, ...

According to the Department of Defense, Prevost became the executive officer of a tank landing ship and “participated in the D-Day landings ... landing troops on Normandy beaches that ...

Mr Keir, who was part of a crew ferrying US troops onto Utah Beach in Normandy during the D-Day ... the 'Desert Rats' - which took part in the D-Day landings and subsequent advance across France.

THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the ...

Aged 99, D-Day veteran Ken Cooke has outlived almost every comrade but refuses to be called a hero. To mark the 80th ...

He sits at home in St John’s, Worcester, surrounded by his books and magazines. A Bible lies on the table before him and over ...

A D-Day veteran who left for Normandy from Hampshire and was shot multiple times during the Second World War has died. Cecil ...