Bernard Jordan | City Jackdaw

I loved this story last year, and was saddened to hear that Bernard Jordan has died today, aged 90. R.I.P

Okay, this is my last D-Day themed post, I promise. It’s just that I’m not sure how many people outside of the UK have heard this story.

Police were called by a Sussex care home on Thursday evening to report the disappearance of one of their residents-89 year old Bernard Jordan. They said that he had left the nursing home at 10.30am on that morning and had not been seen since. Hospitals, bus and taxi companies were contacted as the search got underway.

The search was called off when news came to light on the Friday evening that he had turned up at the Normandy D-Day commemorative service in France.

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Okay, this is my last D-Day themed post, I promise. It’s just that I’m not sure how many people outside of the UK have heard this story.

The search was called off when news came to light on the Friday evening that he had turned up at the Normandy D-Day commemorative service in France.

It appears that staff had been trying to assist him in making arrangements to make the trip, but for whatever reason couldn’t do so. When he saw the preparations being made on the tv, he decided that he just had to be there. So, swearing his wife to secrecy, and hiding the medals he was wearing beneath his coat, he went out , carrying just two Iceland carrier bags. And made his own way there.

Many photographs have since emerged of him posing with a steady supply of attractive young women, both on the ferry crossing and in France itself, and Mr Jordan says he hopes to go again next year 🙂

The story reminded me of that book.