Caithness army cadet Keoni Jones promoted to top spot johnogroat-journal.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from johnogroat-journal.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
How Amin became Field Marshal monitor.co.ug - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from monitor.co.ug Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
RICHARD PENDLEBURY witnessed the courage of the men of 2 Mercians in Afghan conflict dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Stanley Howard Tooze and his identical twin Edwin were born in Rockwell Green in 1923. His first job was as an errand boy at Fox s Factory, in Wellington. He joined the Home Guard at 14, working for the Ministry of Works constructing Dunkeswell airfield runways, driving the concrete lorries. He was conscripted into the army at 18 and immediately volunteered for the Paratroopers as he thought it would be more exciting. He was in A company of the 8th Battalion Parachute Regiment and first saw action on the night before D-Day in June 1944, when he parachuted into German occupied France and was involved in fierce fighting around Caen and then liberating Northern France.