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D-Day veteran who survived PoW camp dies aged 100

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One of Scotland’s last surviving veterans of the D-Day landings has died aged 100.

Jim Glennie was an 18-year-old soldier when he took part in Operation Overload – the largest air and sea invasion in history – on 6 June 1944 to liberate Europe from Hitler’s Nazi regime.

His family described the veteran, from Turriff in Aberdeenshire, as “a hero”.

Glennie, who celebrated his 100th birthday in August last year, had previously said he put his survival down to “sheer luck”.

He had told BBC Scotland that he saw the body of a fallen soldier as he entered the water from a landing craft but knew he had to carry on.

A week later Glennie was injured and captured, eventually arriving in a prisoner of war camp on what was his 19th birthday.


BBC News

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