[FONT=georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif]One hell of a wartime memory to carry around with you.Hope the brave hero rests in peace now.[/FONT]


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[FONT=georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif]War hero's cremation leaves huge pile of shrapnel[/FONT]

The family of a war hero only discovered the full weight of his bravery after his death when his cremation left behind a huge pile of shrapnel.

The bag contained a whopping 6oz of bomb shrapnel, roughly two handfuls, that Mr Brown had been carrying around for 60 years Photo: SWNS.com









8:32PM BST 18 Oct 2012


Ronald Brown stepped on a land mine while on a mission in France in August 1944.

The blast peppered his left leg with red-hot fragments and he was forced to crawl two miles to safety.

But because of medical conditions of the day it was thought safer to leave shrapnel in his body.

He survived the war but only ever told his family the basic story and said the accident had left him with a 'bad knee'.

Mr Brown told loved ones he still had a 'bullet' in his leg and asked his grandchildren not to sit on his knee because of the pain it caused.