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D Day Veterans

Raymond “Tich” Rayner, who served as a platoon sergeant with glider-borne D Company the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Battalion, 6th Airborne Division on D-Day .
Raymond “Tich” Rayner, who served as a platoon sergeant with glider-borne D Company the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Battalion, 6th Airborne Division on D-Day . Their mission was to spearhead the invasion force by flying in to Normandy in 6 Horsa gliders to capture the Caen Canal and River Orne bridges.
Tich was also among the hundreds of thousands of men evacuated at Dunkirk in 1940 .


23 March 2015

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Mcc0061181 . Daily Telegraph<br /> <br /> Telegraph Magazine<br /> <br /> D Day Veterans<br /> <br /> Raymond “Tich” Rayner, who served as a platoon sergeant with glider-borne D Company the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Battalion, 6th Airborne Division on D-Day . <br /> Raymond “Tich” Rayner, who served as a platoon sergeant with glider-borne D Company the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Battalion, 6th Airborne Division on D-Day . Their mission was to spearhead the invasion force by flying in to Normandy in 6 Horsa gliders to capture the Caen Canal and River Orne bridges.<br /> Tich was also among the hundreds of thousands of men evacuated at Dunkirk in 1940 .<br /> <br /> <br /> 23 March 2015
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