Kenneth James Valentine

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Kenneth James Valentine was was born in Newport in the year 1921. From the age of 15, he worked as a carpenter until 1941, when he joined the Royal Dragoon Guards. As part of the Twenty Seventh Armoured Brigade he served during Operation Overlord, also known as D-Day, taking part in the Normandy landings on Sword Beach where he was injured. As a result, he was shipped back to Britain where he spent the remainder of the Second World War convalescing. In 1947, he joined the Cardiff Borough Police. (PROSE: Trace Memory)