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Walsall D-Day hero tanks man dies at 89
Express & Star 21 Dec 09
One of the Midlands’ few surviving D-Day veterans, described as a “one-off” and a “born leader of men”, has died at the age of 89. George Burden, of Walsall, was a sergeant in the Staffordshire Yeomanry and fought in Palestine, North Africa, France, Belgium and Germany. He headed off to war in 1939 after training as a horseman…