FILED - 24 September 2025, United Kingdom, Southend-On-Sea: World War II veteran Dougie Shelley with a tot of rum, is pictured during his 100th birthday tea party at the Royal Naval Association Southend Branch in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. The Second World War veteran, who received more than 16,000 cards for his 100th birthday on Tuesday, is to receive France's highest honour, the Legion d'Honneur. Dougie leer más Shelley, who joined the Royal Navy aged 17, was a seaman gunner on the destroyer HMS Milne on D-Day. Photo: Joe Giddens/PA Wire/dpa leer menos