Surrey Mirror published Heroic Earlswood veteran given France's highest military honour...

A 94-year-old South Earlswood man has been given France's highest military honour for his role in the D-Day landings during the Second World War.A ceremony to award Thomas Whetnall the Légion d'Honneur took place on Friday, January 6 in Reigate Town Hall, and the mayor and mayoress of the borough of Reigate and Banstead, Councillor David Powell and Mrs Caroline Durance, hosted the event in the mayor's parlour.Mr Whetnall, originally from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, came to live...

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