THIS picture shows Bradford man Gerry Briscoe, third from left on the back row, and his friends at the liberation of Brussels. Gerry was one of the first soldiers to set foot in Europe during the Normandy D-Day landings on June 6, 1944
He was a butcher aged just 18 when he joined up. Just a year later he was among those soldiers who bravely stormed the Normandy beaches.
In 2015, aged 90, Gerry joined a group of D-Day veterans from Yorkshire who were presented with France's highest military accolade. The Legion d'Honneur was given by France to all surviving British veterans of the 1944 Normandy landings to honour their part in the liberation of France.
France's ambassador to Great Britain presented the Legion d'Honneur to the men at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington near York.
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