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Funeral held for 'humble' D-Day veteran - Evening Telegraph


Funeral held for ‘humble’ D-Day veteran
April 21, 2021, 4:56 pm
Pallbearers carry the coffin of D-Day veteran Albert Lilly into the chapel at the Oaks Havant Crematorium in Hampshire, for his funeral service. Picture date: Wednesday April 21, 2021.
The funeral has taken place for a 97-year-old veteran who landed in Normandy on D-Day and helped build an airfield in just three days to support invading Allied troops.
Albert Lilly was born in Portsmouth in 1923 and tried to join the Army when the Second World War broke out, but was told to come back in two years because he was just 16.
When he did enrol, he joined the 16th Airfield Construction Group of the Royal Engineers, and he set sail from Lowestoft on June 4 1944 for the D-Day landing, but was left waiting in the Solent for a day because of bad weather. ....

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Funeral held for 'humble' D-Day veteran | Press and Journal


April 21, 2021, 4:56 pm
Pallbearers carry the coffin of D-Day veteran Albert Lilly into the chapel at the Oaks Havant Crematorium in Hampshire, for his funeral service. Picture date: Wednesday April 21, 2021.
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The funeral has taken place for a 97-year-old veteran who landed in Normandy on D-Day and helped build an airfield in just three days to support invading Allied troops.
Albert Lilly was born in Portsmouth in 1923 and tried to join the Army when the Second World War broke out, but was told to come back in two years because he was just 16. ....

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Funeral held for 'humble' D-Day veteran


Funeral held for ‘humble’ D-Day veteran
April 21 2021, 4.56pm
Pallbearers carry the coffin of D-Day veteran Albert Lilly into the chapel at the Oaks Havant Crematorium in Hampshire, for his funeral service. Picture date: Wednesday April 21, 2021.
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The funeral has taken place for a 97-year-old veteran who landed in Normandy on D-Day and helped build an airfield in just three days to support invading Allied troops.
Albert Lilly was born in Portsmouth in 1923 and tried to join the Army when the Second World War broke out, but was told to come back in two years because he was just 16. ....

Tilly La Campagne , Basse Normandie , United Kingdom , Thorney Island , West Sussex , Sara Lilly , Theresa May , Andrew Matthews , Donald Trump , Albert Lilly , Channel Island Airways , Airfield Construction Group Of The Royal Engineers , Second World War , Airfield Construction Group , Royal Engineers , Oaks Havant Crematorium , Wednesday April , Last Post , Oaks Crematorium , Danish Home Guard , British Legion Organised , பஸ்ஸே நார்மண்டி , ஒன்றுபட்டது கிஂக்டம் , மேற்கு சசெக்ஸ் , சாரா லில்லி , தெரேசா இருக்கலாம் ,