Max Embury: 'As a youngster you didn't have any fear'

At just 18 years old, Max Embury from Devon commanded a scout car in the Household Cavalry as the Allies advanced through Italy in 1943.

He was in the first British armoured car to enter Rome during its liberation in June 1944.

He later witnessed the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Near the end of the war, he also was forced to make difficult decisions when his unit came under fire from Hitler Youth in Germany.

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