Overview

• Trooper Roy Cadman died on June 3 at the Royal Hospital Chelsea aged 102, just days before the 81st anniversary of the Normandy landings.
• He stormed Sword Beach on D-Day and advanced inland to relieve Major John Howard’s 6th Airborne Division at Pegasus Bridge.
• Cadman enlisted at 17 by understating his age and saw action in the North African and Sicilian campaigns before fighting in Operation Market Garden.
• After World War II, he joined the TA Parachute Regiment, completed 168 jumps and rose to Company Sergeant Major.
• He made annual pilgrimages to Normandy to honour fallen comrades and will be buried next to his wife Doris in Sunbury-on-Thames.