VETERAN soldiers paid a moving tribute to a former military policeman who has died aged 102.

Harry Morton was the oldest member of the Royal Military Police Association in West Yorkshire.

Association members formed a guard of honour bearing the branch standard at his funeral at Linthwaite Parish Church.

Harry - who died on December 21 - began his military career in 1915 when he became an army cadet messenger boy at Claro Barracks in Ripon.

At 24 he became an Automobile Association patrolman.

In 1938, he joined the Royal Military Police - known as the Redcaps - due to his skills in route- signing and traffic control.

He became part of the British Expeditionary Force in France, helping out at the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940.

He was later promoted to sergeant and played an important role in the movement of troops and vehicles in the south of England, preparing for the D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.

He returned to the AA in 1945 and retired in 1968.

He lived at Cowlersley before going to Paddock Lodge retirement home in Paddock.

He and his late wife, Kathleen, had a daughter, Yvonne.

He also had two granddaughters and four great- grandchildren.