My father, Harry Allpress, who has died aged 95, was a veteran of both the Dunkirk evacuation and the Normandy landings. A member of the reconnaissance corps, he was awarded the Military Medal and twice mentioned in despatches.
Harry was born in Lambeth, south London. His father, William, was an engine driver; his mother, Alice (nee Haynes), had been in domestic service. An exhibition based on the Allpress family, A Family in Wartime, has been created at the Imperial War Museum in London.
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