City pays respects to D-Day hero 'who taught people what Normandy was all about'
City pays respects to D-Day hero 'who taught people what Normandy was all about'

More than 100 members of the public turned out to show their respects to D-Day veteran John Jenkins as his funeral procession passed the museum where he volunteered and the football club he loved.

Mr Jenkins, who served as a platoon sergeant during the Second World War and was awarded the Legion d'Honneur for his part in D-Day, died in December at the age of 100 following a short illness .