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‘Biggest day since 1066’: Army officer on D-Day

A diary from an army officer involved in D-Day described the World War Two Normandy landings as the “biggest day since 1066”.

Jack Parham, who grew up on a farm in rural Wiltshire, kept a meticulous, tiny pocket diary, along with sketches of his involvement in the conflict.

He landed on the afternoon of D-Day, in 1944, co-ordinating and leading troops.

His diary is new kept by the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre. Ruth Butler, from the centre, called him an “artist, an inventor, also a consummate soldier”.


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