Bombardier Robert Key: WW2 grenade hero is honoured

Edit BBC News 06 Nov 2014
A soldier who died saving a group of French children but whose official war record wrongly states he caused his own death, is being honoured in Coventry. Bombardier Robert Key, 30, saved the children when he grabbed a grenade from a child in Annezin in September 1944 ... Gill Mills, Bombardier Key's niece, said the family only discovered her uncle's story in 2008, after they were tracked down by the mayor of Annezin ... ....

Bombardier Robert Key: Street named after grenade hero

Edit BBC News 05 Sep 2014
Bombardier Robert Key grabbed a grenade from a child who had unwittingly pulled out the pin in the town of Annezin in September 1944 ... "These houses are named in remembrance of Bombardier Robert Key born in Hamsterley in 1914 died on 5th September 1944 saving the lives of children in Annezin, France." 'Such a hero'....
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