D-Day hero's war warning

D-DAY veteran George Chandler yesterday warned children at a Downing Street event not to make the same mistakes that his generation did over participating in war.

- Giles Sheldrick

George, 99, told the 10 and 11-year-olds from Hayfield Cross primary in Kettering: "Nobody ever wins a war - one side gives in, and that doesn't mean to say you've won a war if the other side has decided they've had enough.

"So let me ask you sincerely to make sure that you, all of you, don't make the same mistakes that we made in going to war because there's nothing grand or what have you about war."

George, from Brighton, was a 19-year-old Able Seaman when he landed on Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy almost 80 years ago.