01/02/2025
Norwich, GB 5 C
Researching and reporting on the lives of some really interesting people (RIP)

RAYMOND WHITWELL, aged 105

A military veteran who made a daring escape from Dunkirk, he did the same thing after the disastrous Battle of Arnhem -eventually becoming the last survivor.

Fake Tank

GILBERT SELTZER, aged 106

Later to be an accomplished architect, Gilbert’s war service was particularly unusual. He belonged to a military unit that officially never existed: The Ghost Army.