A veteran tank crewman who lost both his legs after landing on Gold Beach on D-Day has died at the age of 99. Roy Hayward went from basic training at Bovington Camp in Dorset to landing in ...

at the eastern end of Gold Beach – which records the names of more than 22,000 servicemen and women under British command who fell on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy in the summer of 1944.

Landing after dark on the evening of D-Day on Gold Beach as a reserve tank crewman, Roy Hayward from the Isle of Wight was in an ammunition lorry following a line of tanks as it moved forwards.

After the parade, over in the Hotel de Normandie cafe overlooking Gold Beach, diners set down their knives and forks and ...

The decorated D-Day veteran stormed ashore on Gold Beach in June 1944, was part of the bloody fight to capture occupied France, and later helped liberate Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.