ONE of Britain’s greatest war heroes, along with many more of the county’s Second World War veterans, will be honoured at a special D-Day ceremony next month.
The wreath-laying ceremony for Major John Howard at his grave at Clifton Hampden church near Abingdon has become a tradition in recent years and will be attended by veterans of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on Tuesday, June 6 from 11.30am.
Major Howard, a former Oxford city policeman, led his 2nd Battalion D Company on the successful Pegasus Bridge operation.
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