D-Day 80 Memorial

Vincent Owen

Vince served on the staff of Field Marshal Montgomery and sailed to Normandy. Although he preferred not to talk too much about his experience he did recall the shock of seeing the total destruction of Caen. He marched through France and into Germany, stopping by the notorious Belsin concentration camp where his Jewish American colleague was ordered to enter the site. After the war he put his language and secretarial skills to good use as a teacher at Newport College, Wales.