A former Arbroath soldier and tradesman has died peacefully, aged 92.
Harry Caird, often known as Hal, was born to parents James and Bella in 1920. The family lived on Noran Avenue.
On leaving school he became an apprentice bricklayer. This was to be his trade throughout his working life.
Called up in 1939, he joined the Middlesex Regiment and was badly injured three days after D-Day in northern France.
His regiment was the first to relieve the Airborne Division that had taken Pegasus Bridge, but his vehicle was blown up.
Having been moved to the field hospital, Mr Caird was dismayed to wake up in the morgue.
Recuperating back in England, he met his future wife Gladys and they moved in to one of the new prefabs on Elmfield Avenue, Arbroath.
Their three children Dennis, Evelyn and Susan were born there, and though the family moved to England in 1957, they continued to visit Arbroath regularly.
Mr Caird continued to work into his seventies but had been ill for some time before he died in Leicestershire.
He had three younger sisters Margaret, Helen and Moira who pre-deceased him.
