IT WAS a proud day for Norman Clark when he finally received a medal to honour his brother’s heroics during the Second World War.
Mr Clark, 83, is the only survivor of nine siblings, four of whom served their country during the war.
The Malmesbury resident has just received the Atlantic Star medal, which was awarded to his brother Ronald, posthumously, for his exploits as a Royal Navy seaman during the conflict.
It was only two years ago that the government finally agreed to award medals to seamen who served in the Atlantic, South Atlantic, in home waters and as part of Russian convoys.
Mr Clark, the youngest of the siblings, also keeps the medals of two of his other brothers safe in his own home, as neither of them married.
He said: “I want to keep the medals in the family, along the male line.
“I will give them to my son Mark and he will pass them to his son John in the future.”
Ronald was in the Royal Navy, serving in the Russian Convoys, and died when he was 77.
He never married and so Mr Clark now looks after his six war medals and his collection of family photographs.
Mr Clark said he is very proud of what his brothers did during the war.
He himself is a former serviceman, joining the military after the war, and said he feels proud to look after the newest medal of his late brother’s collection.
He said that he plans to show it to the Royal British Legion Malmesbury branch before he passes it on to his own son, Mark.
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