We Were There: Eddie Brown took part in D-Day landings
Eddie Brown took part in the D-Day landings during World War Two.
The 100-year-old from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, was a wartime despatch rider who worked in the London area and also across France, The Netherlands and eventually Berlin.
While stationed in Croydon he met a young woman in a cake shop called Win - and after D-Day he decided to fly home without permission to see the woman who eventually became his wife of 70 years.
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