Aubrey Martin, former chairman of the Abingdon branch of the Royal British Legion, has died from cancer at the age of 79.
Mr Martin, a widower, from Ladygrove Paddock in Abingdon, was born in Eynsham, but moved to Jericho in Oxford with his family as a young boy. He spent most of his working life at the Cowley car plant.
At the end of World War Two in which he served with the Army in the Devon and Dorset Regiment in Italy, Mr Martin joined the Legion in Oxford. He was also a member of the Annesley Masonic Lodge in Oxford and the Jersey Lodge in Bicester.
On his retirement from British Leyland, Mr Martin worked on maintenance at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and later at the William Dunn School of Pathology.
He and his late wife Hilda moved from their home in Botley to Abingdon six years ago, where he became involved in organisations, joining both the Legion and Conservative clubs in the town.
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