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Jim Churm obituary
My father, Jim Churm, who has died aged 102, was a D-day veteran and former Royal Navy medic; he later enjoyed a long career in nursing and physiotherapy.
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Jim Churm, who died at 102, was a D‑Day veteran and former Royal Navy medic. He joined the navy at 18 during World War II and trained as a sick berth attendant before being assigned to landing craft operations. On 6 June 1944 he sailed from Newhaven in East Sussex as the leading medic aboard a landing craft that took part in the assault on Sword Beach, one of the five main landing areas of the Normandy invasion. After the war he pursued a long career in nursing and physiotherapy.
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