'We caught them by surprise': war veteran shares memories of D-Day

By Janice Harris
Updated June 25 2014 - 6:32am, first published 3:30am
D-DAY MEMORIES: David Birt reminisces about his role in the D-Day assault  when he was a teenage sailor on the British light cruiser HMS Ajax.
Photo: JUDE KEOGH 0624WAR3
D-DAY MEMORIES: David Birt reminisces about his role in the D-Day assault when he was a teenage sailor on the British light cruiser HMS Ajax. Photo: JUDE KEOGH 0624WAR3

THIS time 70 years ago, following the D-Day landings, teenage sailor David Birt walked up the path of his home in Yorkshire to surprise his mother, who had seven sons away fighting in World War II.

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