D-DAY veteran and salesman Norman Albert Gough Egerton died on May 31, aged 90.

Born in Gloucester on February 6, 1925, Mr Egerton was educated at Gloucester Grammar School, after which he went straight into a career in sales.

However, his work was interrupted by the Second World War and he joined the Royal Navy in 1943, at the age of 18.

He participated in the June 6 D-Day landings at Omaha Beach as a landing craft crew member and medic, ferrying the American soldiers ashore, and later on that bloody day he was posted ashore to assist with the American wounded.

Mr Egerton was assigned as a medic to the destroyer HMS Volage in 1946, and he participated in the blockade of Palestine that year.

In October, the vessel was part of a flotilla of two cruisers and two destroyers, when it hit a mine in the Corfu Strait and was severely damaged. After the incident he returned to England and left the service.

Back living life as a civilian, Mr Egerton took up work as a salesman and during the late 1950s and 1960s he owned his own business supplying the hairdressing trade in Southern England.

He continued to work in sales after he sold the business.

After retiring to Cornwall for a time with his wife of 63 years, Mary, Mr Egerton finally moved to Verwood in 1994, living there for many years and helping out with the annual Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.

He died at the Foxes Moon Residential Home in St Ives, and is survived by his wife, his three children Clive, Kim and Jane, and five grandchildren.

A funeral service was held at Poole Crematorium on June 11.