Funeral held for ‘respected and loved’ D-Day veteran who has died aged 100
A funeral has been held for one of Britain’s last D-Day veterans who died aged 100.
Bill Gladden, of Haverhill, Suffolk was 20 years old when he flew into Normandy on a military glider carrying a tank and six motorbikes on June 6 1944.
He survived being shot by machine gun fire from a tank and spent three years in hospital in the UK.
