It’s pizza in our time for Audrey, 94
Soldier’s incredible life story told in movie
BREADY Audrey takes bite A GREAT-GRAN has had her first pizza – 74 years after shunning Italian food because of her PoW husband’s ordeal at the hands of Mussolini’s forces.
Audrey Prudence, 94, agreed the pact with Desert Rat Jack who survived in the camp on a daily a bowl of celery soup. But after a stroke she made a bucket list and tucked into a Hawaiian pizza...from German supermarket Aldi.
Audrey, of Abridge, Essex, said: ”It was lovely.” Jack, above, died in 2009 at 89.
■ RAF flier Walter Donovan’s last letter to his wife, in which he said “cheerio darling” days before dying in 1944, was found as his medals were sent for auction in London. Sidney Cornell was WW2 hero THE untold story of the first black British para to land in Normandy on D-Day is being made into a film.
Sidney Cornell showed extraordinary courage and was shot four times.
He died two weeks before the end of the war, aged 30, when a bridge was blown up as his team were capturing it.
Now he is being played by Death in Paradise star Tobi Bakare, 30, in the Soldier lines up with his battalion comrades upcoming movie Paratrooper. Writer and director Lance Nielsen said: “It’s an absolutely fascinating story to tell.”
Sidney was born in Portsmouth, son of an African-American circus acrobat.
He was dropped into Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944, with B Company of the 7th Parachute Battalion.
Despite being wounded several times the married dad-of-two continued to serve as a runner, carrying messages under heavy fire. He was promoted from MISSION Paras boarding plane for D-Day drop
private to sergeant and awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.
The citation on his military record says: “Very many acts of gallantry have been performed by members of the battalion but for sustained courage nothing surpasses Cornell’s effort.”
Filming for Paratrooper is currently taking place in England and France.
Executive producer Jason Flemyng – star of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels – said: “This is a film I really
want people to get behind.” Sidney’s great nephew, Chris Cornell, 62, said the film would give belated recognition to the role of black soldiers in the British Army during the Second World War.
He added: “When you look back at old war photos, you tend not to see nonwhite faces. People should realise there were black war heroes who have not been properly recognised.”