Community mourns Army globetrotter.

A GLOBETROTTING grandad who spent five years campaigning with the British Army has died, aged 89.

Len Trinder was just 19 when he joined the Warwickshire Yeomanry in the Cavalry Regiment.

He was sent to Palestine on horse, fought in many campaigns including the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa and later served as a radio operator in Italy, Egypt and Lebanon as part of the Eighth Army. Len returned home to Yewdale Crescent, Potters Green, and later met wife Margaret, who worked in a munitions factory. The couple ran popular ironmongery Trinder and Lawrence, in Walsgrave Road, and were active in the Potters Green Community Association.

Son David, 59, said: "Whenever we would go to shopping in the city centre people would stop and chat to him. We wish to send deepest gratitude to the staff who looked after him in his last day."

Len died of kidney failure at University Hospital on Tuesday November 3. His funeral will be held at Baptist Church, in Lentons Lane, Hawkesbury, at 11am tomorrow.