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  • Exeter's last D-Day hero has died aged 100

    09/04/2020 10:51:48 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 7 replies
    Geoffrey Pyne was the last of his generation - he will be greatly missed but never forgotten.The last post has sounded for a World War II soldier who was thought to be Exeter's last D-Day veteran. Geoffrey Pyne served with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and stormed the Normandy beaches in 1944. The proud soldier celebrated his 100th birthday last year but has lost his final battle against old age, his family has confirmed. Geoffrey's funeral will be attended by a standard bearer of his old army corps which says it is 'immensely proud' of Geoffrey and his generation...