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WW2 Veteran Who Lied About His Age to Sign up at 17 Dies Aged 101
He enlisted at 17 with a forged parental letter and later landed on Sword Beach before being seriously wounded in July 1944.
- Normandy veteran Donald Turrell died on Friday at age 101, the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans announced on Saturday, surrounded by his family.
- Born in London in 1925, Turrell enlisted in the Army at 17 by forging a parental letter claiming he was 18, wanting to defend his country like "all the young lads."
- After landing on Sword Beach in June 1944 following D-Day, Turrell served with the Cameronians during fierce fighting before being seriously injured near Eterville on July 10, 1944.
- Vice president Dick Goodwin of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans called Turrell "incredibly special," saying his presence "lit up every room he entered."
- Turrell previously lived in Frinton-on-Sea in Essex, surviving the war but losing his older brother Leslie, who died in 1944 serving on HMS Penelope off the Italian coast.
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WW2 veteran who lied about his age to get into British Army dies aged 101 . A veteran who fought in the Normandy campaign in World War II after lying about his age has died aged 101
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