If you have any photos or memories you would like to share with us, please email us at newsdesk@newburynews.co.uk 10 years ago – May 29, 2014 Farewell Vernon A Second World War veteran who played a key role in the Royal Navy in sinking Hitler’s Tirpitz battleship, cutting communication cables in the Far East, and in the destruction of Bergen’s floating dock, was greeted with a guard of honour as his coffin arrived at, and departed from, St Mary’s Church, Shaw, on Friday. Vernon Coles died peacefully on May 2 and has now been buried in Shaw Cemetery next to his wife of 62 years, Marie, who died…
