wanted to be a sailor. bit of saltwater in the blood, maybe, somewhere? possibly, somewhere. there somewhere. we re meeting ralph alongside his granddaughter, the actor vicky mcclure. in common with many veterans, he never spoke about his role on d day, but when he began to open up, the two of them travelled back to normandy and to the towns ralph helped to liberate. it was only really in the recent years that we ve found all this out. he s my granddad, that s all i ve ever known, you know, mint humbug as i walked through the door, football, you know, the usual sort of stuff. so when this did come about and we did start learning more about his time in the second world war, it. yeah, it was news to me because i didn t learn about it at school, i was really clear about that. ijust, you know, ithink it s so important. there is a handful of people left now that were there that day,