The family of a Bath D-Day veteran who has passed away aged 91 are planning a "hero's send-off" for him.
Dennis Dayman was just 19 when he stormed Sword Beach in Normandy on June 7, 1944 as a private in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry Regiment.
The retired postman driver succumbed to kidney cancer at the Royal United Hospital on July 23.
Now his daughter Lesley Hobbs, 66, and family are preparing for his funeral at 12.15pm at Haycombe Cemetery on August 11 – and everyone's invited.
Lesley told the Bath Chronicle: "We just need to give him a hero's send off.
"He did his bit and always said he wasn't a hero and was just doing his job.
"It's just unimaginable for us to be thinking about running up a beach under fire when we were 19."
After landing in France Dennis, originally from Birmingham, fought to liberate the town of Caen from Nazi occupation.
His war later ended in Hamburg, but not before he was part of the liberation of Belsen concentration camp.
Lesley said: "He never ever forgot the smell. He said it was just disgusting and a horrible sight to see.
"Whatever was aimed at him he took it on the chin and carried on, the same as all his generation really.
"They lived through such awful times that they had to be fairly stoic and get on with life."
Lesley added that the great-grandfather of four was known as Dennis the Menace for his wicked sense of humour and "liked his tot of whiskey".
For the last seven years of his life the widower of Ethel, his wife of 60 years, lived with Lesley at her home in Newbridge Road, Weston.
In 2014 he was awarded the Legion d'Honneur, France's highest honour, for his part in liberating the country.
Dennis was a regular attendee at the annual D-Day remembrance service in Normandy and made it for the 71st anniversary of the landings last year.
Lesley said: "He was quite a humble sort of chap but very, very proud to have been a D-Day veteran."
His coffin will be draped in the Union Jack with his green military cap on top.
The funeral is being handled by G Mannings Funeral Directors, who also took care of proceedings remembering Bath First World War hero Harry Patch in 2009.
All our welcome for the service and the wake afterwards at the Weston Ex-Services Club, of which Dennis was a lifetime member.