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Radio Wiltshire,3 mins

Wiltshire soldier's D-Day diary

Ben Prater

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Ruth Butler guides Ben Prater through the recollections of Jack Parham from Norrington; in 1944 he was a Brigadier helping to plan Operation Overlord. He went on to become a Major General in the British Army by 1945 and VE Day. His family donated his wartime diaries, photographs and sketches to the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre archive.

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