Last French commando from D-Day dies at the age of 100
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The last surviving member of a French commando unit that took part in the Normandy landings during World War Two has died at the age of 100. Léon Gautier served with the Fusiliers Marins Commando - the only unit of Free French troops to go ashore during D-Day on 6 June 1944. Tim Allman reports.