• The Guardian, Monday, November 11, 2013 3:11 PM

Hundreds of strangers have turned out for the funeral of a second world war veteran after undertakers put out an appeal for mourners to attend his service. Uniformed veterans, teenage air cadets and serving members of the armed forces joined members of the public at the funeral of Harold Jellicoe Percival, known as Coe, who died in a nursing home in Lytham St Annes, near Blackpool in Lancashire, last month. Percival, who served as ground crew with RAF Bomber Command, never married and had no children, and funeral directors feared no one would attend his cremation on Monday morning.

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