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Today we mark the 78th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, the largest seaborne invasion in history. Over the last few years I have been meeting and painting these extraordinary heroes.

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2022-06-06

My portrait of Richard Llewellyn, a veteran of the Normandy landings. Richard was just 18 years old when the Allied Forces turned the tide of the Second World War with their invasion of Normandy in the D-Day landings.
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2022-06-04

Jack Quinn, 97, served in the Royal Marines as a Corporal. He was coxswain in an amphibious craft delivering frogmen in the early hours of D-Day on Gold Beach. On the night of D-Day, Jack defied his Major's orders to help rescue a French boat on fire.

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2022-05-31

My Portrait of D-Day Veteran Patrick Thomas, who was telegraphist in the Royal Navy. He boarded a craft in Portsmouth as thousands of vessels and tens of thousands of soldiers prepared for the day that changed history.

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2022-05-22

George Skipper was a D-Day veteran landing on Gold Beach, June 6 1944 and was honoured in 2015 with the Légion d’honneur by the French government for veterans who had fought and risked their lives to secure France’s liberation in World War 2.

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2022-02-15