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Omaha Steve

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Sat Jul 12, 2025, 01:41 PM Jul 12

UK's oldest WWII veteran, Donald Rose, dies at 110 [View all]

Source: AP

Updated 8:42 AM CDT, July 12, 2025

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s oldest World War II veteran, Donald Rose, has died at the age of 110.

Rose participated in the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944, and was part of the division that liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany.

In a statement Friday, the leader of the Erewash Borough Council in the north of England, James Dawson, announced Rose’s death, calling him a “war hero.”

“Erewash was privileged to count him as a resident,” he added.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/britain-wwii-oldest-veteran-obit-donald-rose-51ac1a50d1c6dff17e3930911bfa3f6c



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