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Léon Gautier: Last French D-Day fighter dies aged 100

2023-07-03 17:14
Léon Gautier is being remembered as a "defender of freedom" for his role opposing Nazi Germany.
Léon Gautier: Last French D-Day fighter dies aged 100

The last surviving member of a French commando unit that helped to repel Nazi Germany's invasion of western Europe has died aged 100.

Léon Gautier was part of the D-Day landings in 1944 - when Allied forces invaded Normandy in France during the biggest sea invasion in history.

He was among...