D-Day mission to keep grandad's 80-year promise: Army veteran will sail to Juno Beach to return a handful of sand scooped for luck by his late relative on the day of Normandy landings in 1944

As his Army issue boots hit the sands of Juno Beach on 6th June 1944 Second Lieutenant Gilbert Jones bent down and scooped up a handful for luck.
He put his D-Day talisman in a tin and kept it in his backpack for the rest of the war. Back home on his …
D-Day mission to keep grandad's 80-year promise: Army veteran will sail to Juno Beach to return a handful of sand scooped for luck by his late relative on the day of Normandy landings in 1944