Daughter pays tribute to 'lucky' father on D-Day

Bev Ferey said her father Bill Brown lied about his age so he could fight

A woman from Jersey has paid tribute to her "lucky" father on the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

Bev Ferey said she was a young girl when she questioned her father Bill Brown about medals she found in a drawer.

Ms Ferey said he told her he "won the in the war".

It was her father's 19th birthday on 6 June 1944, when tens of thousands of soldiers landed on the beaches in Normandy, with her father landing on day three.

Bill Brown, in the back row, landed on the beaches in Normandy on day three of the operation

Ms Ferey said her father was 14 and training to be a butcher when World War Two broke out

"A couple of years later he decided to lie about his age so he could sign up to fight for his country," he said.

She said her father had told her a "big cheer broke out" when his unit was told they would be landing on the beaches on the third day of the operation.

“He also said that he swapped trenches with a friend and that the trench he had moved from was bombed, so for him, he was one of the lucky ones," she said.

"He hardly ever spoke about the war apart from me being inquisitive as a child."