Royal Navy veteran, 104, ready to celebrate third coronation
BBC Radio Wiltshire
A 104-year-old Royal Navy veteran is preparing to celebrate his third coronation ahead of King Charles III's on Saturday. Capt Bryan Bouchard, of Amesbury, Wiltshire, has lived during the reign of five monarchs and was at Elizabeth II's review of the fleet in 1953.Asked how he felt serving king and country, he said: "I was very proud of it and they looked after me very well."Capt Bouchard, born in 1919, said he would have a marquee in his garden and a big screen for the coronation on 6 May.
"It was a splendid thing, and, of course, the Victoria and Albert Yacht [which carried the Queen] came by."Capt Bouchard spent most of the war as a second-in-command on a Royal Navy destroyer, battling U-boats that were trying to stop vital supplies reaching the UK."I was present at the sinking of four U-boats. One of our fellow ships had sunk a submarine and had some prisoners on board.
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