Regimental Sergeant Major Eric Lines won the prestigious Military Medal for helping to defend Pegasus Bridge on June 6, 1944, during the D-Day Normandy landings.
Over 20 years ago, Andrew Cooper became the tenant of National Trust-owned Croydon Hoe Farm, in North Devon - and received £200,000 for leaving his fields uncultivated.
Noreen Riols, who died on January 2 this year aged 98, would test recruits by meeting them at a hotel in Bournemouth, giving them drinks and seeing if they would spill secrets about their work.
Captain John Dixon was captured at Dunkirk and spent the whole of the Second World War in a PoW camp in Germany. Stage productions were regularly put on by the men to keep up morale.