"A naval hero who helped force the Government into a climbdown on veterans funding has died at the age of 100. Talented amateur boxer and Second World War warrior Peter Kent went into battle on behalf of his chums after an earlier promise was withdrawn. Peter, who saw action on D-Day as a crewman on HMS Adventure, described the desertion of wartime heroes as a "betrayal". His intervention on the eve of VE Day was instrumental in forcing ministers into a humiliating u-turn and the promise of cash to pay for battlefield visit bed and board... ...Peter signed up with the Royal Navy on his 18th birthday in 1943 and was just 19 when the mighty Normandy Invasion took place." WW2 warrior who forced Labour into a humiliating veterans' cash climbdown dies at 100
