Eirian Edwards, who is 16, is proud to be the youngest volunteer at Angle’s Chapel Bay Fort and Museum, particularly as his grandfather served with the 8th Army during the Second World War.

Eirian, whose home is in Pembroke, is pictured at the museum beside ammunition for a Sherman Firefly Tank and is holding a photograph of his grandfather, Lance Sergeant William D. ’Eddie’ Edwards, with Mac, Johnny and Lew, in front of a Firefly at Eindhoven in 1944.

Lance Sergeant Edwards served in the 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry as part of the 8th Army. He saw action in North Africa, including at El Alamein, and in Italy, France and Germany.

He landed on D Day +1 at Arromanches and was also present at Villers-Bocage, Caen; the relief of Belsen and at the end of the Second World War at Hamburg.

During his military service, Lance Sergeant Edwards served in a variety of tanks, from the Matilda, Cromwell and Valentine to the Churchill, Sherman Firefly and Crusader.

Grandson Eirian was just 14 when he became a volunteer at the fort and museum and was 15 when he conducted his first solo tour of the historic site. He left Pembroke School in July and is now planning a career in the Army.