A hero's return

D-Day veteran Don, 100, tours his old regiment haunts

- By Giles Sheldrick Chief Reporter

MILITARY veteran Don Turrell shed a tear as he returned to the birthplace of his Second World War regiment.

Don, 100, who served on D-Day with The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), received a hero’s welcome as one of its last serving members.

He toured some of the rifle regiment’s significant locations before a red carpet reception at its museum in Hamilton, which tells the story of the Cameronians, raised in Douglas in 1689 by James, Earl of Angus.

‘The trip was a birthday treat organised by the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, which returns heroes to the battlefields, and with whom Don returns to Normandy each year.