D-Day: Hove veteran disappears for Normandy trip

Name: D-Day: Hove veteran disappears for Normandy trip
Uploaded: 2014-06-07T07:39:02.000Z
Duration: 1 min 28 s
Description: A World War Two veteran who disappeared from his nursing home to attend the D-Day commemorations in France is on his way back to the UK.

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A World War Two veteran who disappeared from his nursing home to attend the D-Day commemorations in France is back in the UK.

Bernard Jordan, 89, left the home in Hove unannounced at 10:30 BST on Thursday and was reported missing to Sussex Police that evening.

Staff later discovered he had joined other veterans in France.

Andy Moore reports.

7 June 2014