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            William Billy Ness 12th (Yorkshire) Parachute Battalion C Company, visiting Ranville Cemetery to visit the grave of this best friend "Stoney" some 75 years later.

It is with a tear in my eye and a lump in my throat I have to report that Billy sadly passed away on the 12th of May 2021. 

Billy was there as part of the 75th Anniversary as he had been many times before on previous anniversaries, but this one was sadly to be his last. 

I look at these pictures and I am filled with both sadness and joy. 

I am sad I will not get to meet Billy again but I have joy in knowing he is now with his best mate Stoney having a good old knees up in an eternal life. 

A hero in every sense of the word RIP and Lest We Forget

Taken in: France / Normandy / Arrondissement de Lisieux / Ranville (show map)

Taken on: June 8, 2019

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