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Bromsgrove Navy veteran Albert Malin received the prestigious L茅gion d鈥橦onneur, the highest award the French government can give, in a career that saw him loading landing crafts with German prisoners of war during D-Day.

He tells Tom Edwards that a day doesn't go by that he doesn't think about the Second World War, because it shaped his life forever.

Albert ended up in the thick of the conflict, serving in the Far East and Arctic Ocean, with German bombers a constant threat. He survived an attack which resulted in the death of 90 fellow seamen.

After being discharged from the Royal Navy in 1947, aged 20, he went on to become a firefighter and school caretaker. A life well-lived!