One of a series of twelve portraits of D-Day veterans commissioned in 2014 by His Majesty King Charles III, then The Prince of Wales, following his attendance at the 70th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy. The series of portraits pay tribute to some of the extraordinary men that played a role in the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, during the Second World War.

In June 1944, James ‘Jim’ Glennie was attached to the 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders for the Allied invasion on D-Day, subsequently advancing inland and taking up defensive positions near Caen. During a German counter-attack Jim was wounded and taken prisoner. He was sent to Stalag IV-B, where he spent the next four months as a prisoner of war.