War veteran’s dying wish: Post my Leave vote

A GRIEVING family has revealed how a war hero’s final wishes were for his Leave vote to be posted. Leonard Moore, pictured, who was a submariner during the Second World War, marked a cross in the Leave the EU box just before being taken into hospital at the age of 91. Last night his daughter Kim Low said: ‘He believed the England he fought for was barely recognisable. The last thing he did with a pen was tick the Leave box.’ Mr Moore’s nephew Graham Moore added: ‘His last words to me were “post my Leave vote”. He was fighting for this country until the end.’ Mr Moore, from London, died of heart and kidney failure on June 1. His vote will still be valid. As news of his death emerged, veterans gathered in Maidenhead, Berkshire to campaign for Brexit yesterday.

Lieutenant Francis Goode, 92, said: ‘I don’t want my grandchildren to be subservient, we fought for British freedom.’ And Bryan Neely, 92, who served in the RAF, said: ‘They thought we were on our backs at Dunkirk and they were wrong. We went on to save Europe – now we can save Europe again.’