"One of Scotland's last surviving veterans of the D-Day landings has died at the age of 96. Alex Marshall was badly wounded in an infamous tank battle after the Allied invasion of Nazi-held France. He later returned to the frontline and was injured a second time in the Netherlands, near the German border. Mr Marshall's wartime experiences haunted him for years and drove him to help fellow veterans and commemorate comrades who did not return home. As a longstanding chairman of the Fife, Lothian and Borders branch of the Normandy Veterans Association, he helped organise their trips back to France on major anniversaries of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. Born in Glasgow, Mr Marshall was called up in 1942 at the age of 18 and joined the Royal Armoured Corps. He was a gunner in a Cromwell tank on D-Day, 6 June 1944, and landed on Gold Beach in Normandy with the 4th County of London Yeomanry." www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53249450?fbclid=IwAR1oeDZcwEafyjG91VkATlflY9SabGWNWgSRcdoIMuwwHXXr-6OZDrcHIxA
