Farewells have been paid to a 97-year-old "war hero" who fought on D-Day in the Second World War.
Frank J G Warren, who piloted a landing craft during the Normandy landings and later served in Burma, died on March 24.
On Tuesday, April 25 a funeral took place at South Park Chapel in Seven Kings and a more military-style tribute took place later at the City of London Crematorium in Manor Park.
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The tribute included seven standard bearers, two bugles and a bagpipes send-off, and around 100 people attended the two services combined.
Frank's son Richard said: "The energy that he gave off was the energy that seeped into the community around here – it's a very powerful energy.
"No one knew what he'd done.
"[The service] was just beautiful you couldn’t write a better send off for Dad...
"It was a war hero send off."
Frank volunteered at the age of 17 to the Royal Marines at the outbreak of the Second World War.
During the Normandy landings, he was stationed on HMS Broadsword.
His landing craft was sunk on Sword beach, and Frank spent eight hours on the beach under heavy fire.
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He was also aboard the Empire Broadsword when it was sunk by an acoustic mine off Omaha beach with the loss of thirty of his crew members.
He later served in Burma as part of the British Army's campaign against the Japanese forces in the region.
According to Richard, Frank rarely talked about his service.
Richard said: "Although he was a war hero, he never really spoke about it so from our perspective, I didn’t get to know that Dad did that kind of service until really really late – around the 65th, 70th, 75th anniversary of D-Day...
"Our neighbours all came to the funeral… it was so beautiful to see them all turn up – a really wonderful experience.
"They were super shocked...
"He was a war hero hidden in plain sight."
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He went on: "No one really knows what D-Day meant.
"I told the man across the road, 'you know your house was flattened by a bomb'.
"A bomb went through the window and killed a little girl on the stairs.
"I said: 'That’s why my dad went to war - not for anything else - he went because they were trying to destroy our freedom and kill us all.'
Richard described his father as a very "humble" man.
Speaking about him and his father's trip to France for the 65th D-Day anniversary, Richard said: "He didn’t want to wear his medals - I had to force him to put the medals on.
"He wanted to walk with the 'normal people' and not all the veterans and I had to literally barge him into the street so he would take part.
"He was a very humble man and he never talked about it at home so we didn’t know about this stuff for a long time."
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