Final farewell to ‘gentleman' D-Day hero
Daily Mirror UK|June 15, 2024
PALLBEARERS solemnly carry the coffin of one of Britain's last D-Day veterans, who died aged 100.
SAM RUSSELL
Final farewell to ‘gentleman' D-Day hero

Bill Gladden, of Haverhill, Suffolk, was 20 when he flew into Normandy on a military glider with a cargo of a tank and six motorbikes on June 6, 1944.

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