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D-Day survivor 'dedicated' to 'fallen comrades' dies aged 100
Stan Ford survived the 1944 sinking of HMS Fratton that killed 31 crew, later serving as British Normandy Memorial ambassador to honour over 22,000 fallen soldiers.
- On February 8, 2026 the British Normandy Memorial posted that Bath-based Second World War veteran Cyril Stanley 'Stan' Ford, aged 100, has died.
- Long ago during the Normandy campaign, HMS Fratton was torpedoed and sank off the Normandy coast on August 18, 1944, sinking in four minutes with 31 crew dead and 38 survivors.
- Blasted into the sea during the attack, Ford was rescued and treated at a Gold Beach field hospital after the explosion fractured his spine and injured both legs, leaving him to walk with leg callipers for more than 80 years.
- The Normandy Memorial Trust said it was `deeply saddened` and sent sincere condolences to his daughters Lorraine and Julie, while the Taxi Charity For Military Veterans called him `a man who lived a life of profound service and courage`.
- By carrying the Queen's Baton and speaking to schoolchildren, Ford raised funds for an education centre and met the King at the British Normandy Memorial's 80th-anniversary events.
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D-Day veteran and British Normandy Memorial ambassador dies aged 100
Tributes remember Stan Ford as a man of ‘profound service and courage’ who ‘dedicated himself to keeping alive the memory of his fallen comrades’.
·London, United Kingdom
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