Framed portrait black and white photograph of Normandy Veter...

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Framed portrait black and white photograph of Normandy Veteran Robert Purver. Size overall including frame 76cm x 56cm. This is his story: "I went in with the Canadians on Juno Beach in the first wave of the landings. My job was to find the quickest routes off the beach and get the soldiers moving to them as soon as possible. If we stayed stuck on the beach, we would be wiped out. Behind us the guns from the ships fired and we could hear the shells whistling over our heads. Then a squadron of Spitfires flew over us at head height and opened up on the German defences to try and soften them up for us. When the landing craft beached and the front lowered, we ran for our lives. There were Canadians falling and dying all around me. I kept on running".