Nottinghamshire D-Day veterans unveil new bench in memory of the fallen

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A former miner, a train guard, a mortgage broker, and the former chairman of an international bank: what do they have in common? They were among more than 50 army reservists from the Nottingham region in France last week commemorating the D-day Normandy landings. Their coach party followed the narrow country roads inland from gold beach, where the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, a distinguished Carlton-based armoured army unit who had proved their metal in earlier desert campaigning, were selected to lead the way and play a vital part when Allied forces stormed ashore, marking the start of France's liberation during the...