Donald Howkins helped liberate Europe in 1944 with the 90th Middlesex Regiment of the Royal Artillery Donald Howkins pictured at his 105th birthday party earlier this year Enfield’s last D-Day veteran has died aged 105. Donald Howkins – who carried a piece of shrapnel in his leg for the rest of his life after being wounded during the liberation of Europe in 1944 – passed peacefully at his Forty Hill care home, Elsyng House, on Wednesday (26th). …
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