A World War Two tank driver remembers having to a get a tow because his tank's battery was flat when he heard news of the end of the war in Europe.
"I thought: What the hell am I doing here'?" Walter Foster laughed.
Ahead of events to mark the VE Day on Thursday, he was awarded a special certificate signed by the Colonel of Scots Guard Regiment, the Duke of Edinburgh, on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
"I can only say that I feel really humble," said the retired nurse from Llanishen, Cardiff, who parachuted into France on D-Day, got wounded in the leg, before driving tanks all the way to Germany and the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
"It was so upsetting," he said of the the Holocaust survivors he saw.
"They were just skeletons and although we opened the gates for them they didn't move… they just sat down or lolled and didn't get up. How they were alive I don't know.
"It broke my heart to see that."
