World War Two veteran denied royal 100th birthday card as he was born in Ireland 

Lawrence O'Hara-Hutchinson's family have appealed to Britain's King Charles to send him a birthday card. File picture: ITV

An Irishman who fought for the British army in the Second World War and helped liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp has been denied a birthday card to celebrate his 100th birthday from the British monarchy because he was not born in the UK.

Dublin-born Lawrence O’Hara-Hutchinson also fought alongside British paratroopers in North Africa and later in the bloody battle at Arnhem in Holland when the Allies experienced some of the war’s fiercest fighting.