ERNIE HOLMES, aged 100
An RAF pilot at 19 he was a Pathfinder and was then shot down over Holland. A POW in a notorious camp he went on to fly in the Berlin Airlift, survive a terrible crash and reach his 100th birthday.
BETTY PHARES, aged 97
A singer and dancer she entertained troops during the war and starred in films supporting The Three Stooges, before becoming a big band singer.
EILEEN ASH, aged 110
Before the war she played test cricket for England and then joined MI6. She resumed her cricket career and went on to be the world’s oldest test cricketer.
TEKLA JUNIEWICZ, aged 116
Born in 1906 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, she lived through two world wars and lived in Poland. She became the oldest person ever in Poland and the second oldest in the world.
YURI AVERBAKH, aged 100
A qualified engineer who became a Chess Grandmaster and referee, as well as being a noted writer on chess. He was the first ever centenarian Chess Grandmaster.
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