# One of Scotland’s last D-Day veterans dies aged 100 just days before Remembrance Sunday

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/one-of-scotlands-last-d-day-veterans-dies-aged-100-just-days-before-remembrance-sunday/
- Published: 2026-11-07T04:49:42+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-07T05:22:43+00:00
- Original publisher: GB News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.gbnews.com/news/charlie-horne-d-day-veterans-dies-remembrance-sunday
- Topics: UK, World

## Key points

- D-Day veteran Charlie Horne has died aged 100.
- He helped clear mines off Omaha Beach in 1944.
- His diary preserved a firsthand account of the landings.

## Summary

Charlie Horne, one of Scotland’s last surviving D-Day veterans, has died aged 100, days before Remembrance Sunday. He served aboard a minesweeper clearing routes off Omaha Beach during the Normandy landings, and his death marks the loss of another firsthand witness to the Second World War.

Horne was 18 when German forces fired on his vessel on 6 June 1944. His handwritten diary described wreckage and servicemen in the water, and recorded his ship destroying eight mines; he later received France’s Légion d’honneur. Originally from Prestonpans, he lived at Erskine Veterans Charity’s Edinburgh home from the summer, and the charity said his wartime recollections had been preserved for future generations.

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