Hanks said it is easy to forget that those who lived through the major world event had no idea how long it would last at the time.

John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway died in March this year at the age of 105.

The PSNI said the work in Newtownards, Co Down, could take a number of days.

The Royal College of Nursing Northern Ireland has collected memories of nurses involved in the Second World War.