D-Day veterans prove that age shall not weary them

By The Newsroom
Published 3rd Oct 2017, 10:59 BST
Updated 4th Oct 2017, 10:45 BST
Veterans Don Sheppard, 97, (left) of the 51st Highland Division and John Sleep, 96, originally of the Royal Berkshires, then of the Parachute Regiment. PPP-170110-101804006Veterans Don Sheppard, 97, (left) of the 51st Highland Division and John Sleep, 96, originally of the Royal Berkshires, then of the Parachute Regiment. PPP-170110-101804006
Veterans Don Sheppard, 97, (left) of the 51st Highland Division and John Sleep, 96, originally of the Royal Berkshires, then of the Parachute Regiment. PPP-170110-101804006
These days they might have to parade in wheelchairs but 73 years ago they were fighting to save Europe.

Don Sheppard is now 97, John Sleep is 96, but as young men in 1944 they took part in the D-Day landings.

They were just two of the old soldiers who spent last weekend in Portsmouth as part of the Spirit of Normandy Trust’s annual reunion.

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