Remembrance Sunday this year took place eighty years since the end of WW2. The numbers of veterans who took part in those hostilities have dwindled to the point where very few of them remain amongst ...

A World War Two hero who survived D-Day but said it 'wasn't worth it' because of the state of the country has died aged 101. Alec Penstone, from Shanklin, Isle of Wight, dedicated his whole life to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alec Penstone, who cast a wreath into French waters, said he had no idea where the invasion would take place - Paul Grover For ...

D-Day veteran Alec Penstone met the D-Day Darlings when attending the 80th anniversary of the WWII allied invasion of France Tributes have been paid to one of the Isle of Wight's last Second World War ...

In the lead-up to Britain’s Remembrance Day on November 11, a 100-year-old British veteran of the Second World War, Alec Penstone, provoked significant discussion after he told the popular news ...

Tributes have been paid to a D-Day veteran who has died at the age of 101. Alec Penstone, who lived on the Isle of Wight and was a submarine detector on HMS Campania, stopping U-boats on D-Day, died ...

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