Crowds line streets to pay their respects to royal engineer who survived landings and raised more than £50,000 for veterans
He did not like to be called a hero, but on a bright spring day the people of Cornwall turned out in force to give him a send-off fit for one.
Crowds lined the streets of St Austell today to pay their respects to the D-day veteran Harry Billinge, who died earlier this month aged 96.