The D day veteran you refer to is Harry Billinge, who received an MBE in the March 2020 Honours, for his support over many years to the RBL and his fund raising activities to support a permanent memorial in France.
There is no doubt the latest Honours list is dominated by people who ‘stepped up’ during the pandemic - well done to them and all the others on the list. As ever, there will be many deserving recipients, but there will also be honours dished out to undeserving sycophants and flunkies. Still, it gives the Beeb News the opportunity to go into woke overdrive and they appear to be lapping it up this morning.
I’m personally disappointed my stiff ignoring of the weekly clap for the NHS has been overlooked.