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Article: Veteran leaps into history; Arnhem return as Arthur, 80, helps charity.(News)
- Article from:
- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- September 17, 2001
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Byline: David Charters
HE WILL be 80 in November and his hips are stiff with osteoarthritis - but the man with the clipped moustache is determined to leap from the heavens to commemorate a great battle.
And when his parachute opens again over the fields of Arnhem, it will be just one more adventure in the extraordinary life of Arthur Winstanley.
For the moment, though, he is remembering the days when he sat in a billet in Nazareth.
Then, the wireless operator, whose skin under the desert sun had turned as dark as a sergeant-major's tea, wondered when peace would return to the world.
A little over year later, Arthur had his ...