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| D-Day veteran Bernard Jordan's war medals sold at auction | D-Day veteran Bernard Jordan's war medals sold at auction |
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| War medals belonging to the World War Two veteran who made headlines when he left his care home to attend French D-Day commemorations last summer have fetched £1,650 at auction. | War medals belonging to the World War Two veteran who made headlines when he left his care home to attend French D-Day commemorations last summer have fetched £1,650 at auction. |
| Bernard Jordan, 90, died on 30 December - a week before his wife Irene died. | Bernard Jordan, 90, died on 30 December - a week before his wife Irene died. |
| The medals, including a 1939-45 star, an Atlantic star with French and German clasp and an Italy star, went under the hammer in Lewes, East Sussex. | The medals, including a 1939-45 star, an Atlantic star with French and German clasp and an Italy star, went under the hammer in Lewes, East Sussex. |
| The lot, which also included a portrait of Mr Jordan, was sold for charity. | The lot, which also included a portrait of Mr Jordan, was sold for charity. |
| A coloured print of a Bob cartoon from The Sunday Telegraph, showing Mr Jordan on Steve McQueen's motorcycle featured in The Great Escape, was also included. | A coloured print of a Bob cartoon from The Sunday Telegraph, showing Mr Jordan on Steve McQueen's motorcycle featured in The Great Escape, was also included. |
| Items relating to Mr Jordan's trip to Normandy last June, including his Brittany Ferries return trip ticket confirmation printouts, were also sold, a spokesman for auctioneers Wallis and Wallis said. | |
| The collection was bought by military collector Andrew Butler, 55, from Ramsgate, Kent, who will put it on display in his shop in Normandy. | |
| "I'm very proud," said Mr Butler. | |
| "It's something that will be displayed in the shop for tourists and collectors to see. | |
| "Having the shop in Normandy, I saw (Mr Jordan's) story on the internet and in the papers. When I saw them come up, it was something I had to have for the display in the window." | |
| Mr Jordan, a former mayor of Hove, sparked a police search when he left his care home in the city unannounced and travelled to the D-Day events in Normandy, wearing his war medals. | Mr Jordan, a former mayor of Hove, sparked a police search when he left his care home in the city unannounced and travelled to the D-Day events in Normandy, wearing his war medals. |
| He joined British veterans, many making a final journey to visit the scene of the invasion and to commemorate their fallen comrades. | He joined British veterans, many making a final journey to visit the scene of the invasion and to commemorate their fallen comrades. |
| He was later made an honorary alderman of Brighton and Hove. | He was later made an honorary alderman of Brighton and Hove. |
| Mr Jordan and his 88-year-old wife left their £600,000 estate to the RNLI. | Mr Jordan and his 88-year-old wife left their £600,000 estate to the RNLI. |