Missing D-Day veteran pulls off escape to Normandy

[The Machine]

 

 

Bernard Jordan pictured at his care home in Hove (left) and during WWII (right).

 

An 89-year-old veteran reported missing from a nursing home was found in France, marking the anniversary of the D-Day landings.

 

Bernard Jordan - who left The Pines care home in Furze Hill, Hove, wearing his war medals - has contacted the home and said his friends are going to make sure he gets back safely when the commemorations end.

Sussex Police were called yesterday evening by nursing home staff who said Mr Jordan had gone out at 10.30am and had not been seen since.

 

He had gone out wearing a grey mac and a jacket underneath with his war medals on, police said.

 

 

Bernard Jordan with a picture of himself as mayor of Hove.

 

Officers began searching the area, including checking hospitals in case something had happened to him, and spoke to bus and taxi companies, but none of them knew where he was.

 

The nursing home received a phone call from a younger veteran from Brighton at 10.30pm who said he had met Mr Jordan on a coach on the way to France and that they were safe and well in a hotel in Ouistreham.

 

Sussex Police said they have spoken to him and "are satisfied that the pensioner is fine", adding: "Once the pensioner is home we will go and have a chat with him to check he is ok."

 

Chief Superintendent Nev Kemp, Police Commander for the City of Brighton & Hove, also tweeted: "Love this:89yr old veteran reported missing by care home who said he can't go to Normandy for #DDay70 remembrance. We've found him there!"

 

[SnowGlobe7]

Leave no man behind

[vietnam1969]

Way to go Mr. Jordon                

[George Hayduke]

Now that's the way to live! 

[calkid11]

Thank you