Bomber Command Veteran Tom Davidson to be given Legion d'honneur.
In my local paper today. Tom was a Warrant Officer Flight Engineer with 466 Squadron during WW2, and completed 30 operations. So one cant even begin to imagine what danger this brave, modest man went through.
92 year old Tom will be given the top honour by the honorary French Consul in Durham Cathedral at the completion of the Festival of Remembrance Concert, Saturday 7th November (tickets still available). I would have gone but I'm off to London.
Tom will be remembering his wife, who passed away after 70 happy years of marriage (married June 1944, she could have been a war widow as a teenager, as Tom says), and also his brother Frank, also a Flight Engineer killed in service November 1943).
God bless you Tom, hope its a good night.