A veteran tank crewman who lost both his legs after landing on Gold Beach on D-Day has died at the age of 99. Roy Hayward went from basic training at Bovington Camp in Dorset to landing in ...

at the eastern end of Gold Beach – which records the names of more than 22,000 servicemen and women under British command who fell on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy in the summer of 1944.

Nottinghamshire army veterans and serving soldiers are preparing to give a final salute to Trooper Roy Hayward, a tank crewman who lost both his legs after landing on Gold Beach on D-Day in 1944 ...

The decorated D-Day veteran stormed ashore on Gold Beach in June 1944, was part of the bloody fight to capture occupied France, and later helped liberate Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.