Hamilton spectator staff
The spec epaper today
Hamilton spectator subscriptions...
Winston Churchill's hero betrayed by his country as commando death 'linked to nuke tests'
When Winston Churchill wanted a statue to honour those who saved Britain from the Nazis, Howard Elliott was chosen as the perfect example.
He was the model for a memorial to the men of Britain's armed forces. It still stands in Westminster Abbey.
Howard landed in Normandy on D-Day, raided Nazi defences, and once arrested an armoured German convoy single-handed.
But 20 years later, this heroic paratrooper was ordered by the government to undertake a final task so toxic his family believe it killed him, in a scandal covered up by successive governments.
Aged 40, Howard was sent to the Australian Outback where British scientists were testing nuclear weapons.
What is your view?
Have your say in the comments section
He told his sons he had to pick up lumps of plutonium from the ground after it was blown up in a series of simulated accidents.
He died aged 58 after suffering f
