Wish granted for mechanic Ray Nash to be buried in ‘lost’ childhood home of Imber, Salisbury Plain, where villagers were evacuated for D-day preparations and never allowed to return
A “ghost village” evacuated almost 80 years ago is to host what might be its final funeral for a man who lived there when he was a boy.
The settlement of Imber, on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, was cleared during the second world war so that the area could be used to prepare troops before the D-day landings. Villagers were never allowed to return and it remains part of the Ministry of Defence’s training area with people only allowed to visit occasionally.
